Thinking With Type by Ellen Lupton
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A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students
Paperback, 224 pages, ISBN: 9781568989693
Published by Princeton Architectural Press, 2010, 2nd, Revised Edition
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From the publisher:
“Thinking with Type is to typography what Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time is to physics.”—I Love Typography
The best-selling Thinking with Type in a revised and expanded second edition: Thinking with Type is the definitive guide to using typography in visual communication. Ellen Lupton provides clear and focused guidance on how letters, words, and paragraphs should be aligned, spaced, ordered, and shaped. The book covers all typography essentials, from typefaces and type families, to kerning and tracking, to using a grid. Visual examples show how to be inventive within systems of typographic form, including what the rules are, and how to break them.
This revised edition includes forty-eight pages of new content with the latest information on:
• style sheets for print and the web
• the use of ornaments and captions
• lining and non-lining numerals
• the use of small caps and enlarged capitals
• mixing typefaces
• font formats and font licensing
Plus, new eye-opening demonstrations of basic typography design with letters, helpful exercises, and dozens of additional illustrations.
Thinking with Type is the typography book for everyone: designers, writers, editors, students, and anyone else who works with words. If you love font and lettering books, Ellen Lupton’s guide reveals the way typefaces are constructed and how to use them most effectively.
Praise for Thinking With Type:
“For any student in need of an overview that covers practice type use and conception, this is the go-to volume.” —Omnivoracious
About the author:
Ellen Lupton
is the author of thirteen books with Princeton Architectural Press. She is senior curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Jennifer Cole Phillips is principal of J. Cole Phillips Design. Lupton and Phillips are directors of the Graphic Design MFA program at the Maryland Institute College of Art and the recipient of numerous awards for their work as designers and educators.
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