This
lovely, well-written book is concerned foremost with creating
beautiful typography and is essential for professionals who regularly
work with typographic designs. Author Robert Bringhurst writes about designing
with the correct typeface; striving for rhythm, proportion, and harmony; choosing
and combining type; designing pages; using section heads, subheads, footnotes,
and tables; applying kerning and other type adjustments to improve legibility;
and adding special characters, including punctuation
and diacritical marks.
Paperback - 320 pages 2nd edition (January 1997)
$22.46 |
"
The Elements of Typographic Style  "
by Robert Bringhurst |
| Website for students, teachers and professionals
to educate about the history of type,
classifications of type and structure of letterforms. | "Counter
Space" | | Take a look at this interesting page that deals
with the classification and evolution of type. The page scrolls horizontally, which actually
is quite effective. | "Classification
of Type" | | Some nice information on typography, and type fitting on this Miningco.com site. Check
it out. | "Finding
the Right Type" | | A very simple font FAQ
page. If you are new to fonts, you should maybe check this one out. | "Font
FAQ" | | This
page takes a brief, but good look at typeface usage
for headlines and titles. What does the typeface communicate?
Find out. | "Ideabook" |
| A
nice directory
of web sites dedicated to the history of printing and
typography. Good stuff. | "Planet
Typography" | | Check out this site that deals with digital typography. Great. | "The
Font Site" | | View this page produced by the venerable typography expert
Robin Williams.
Very good segments. She knows what she's talking about. |
"Type
Talk" | | A
nice site that has
essays,
resources to choose the right
type, and more. Good stuff. | "Typofile" |
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