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Designing Fonts

Author : Chris Campe

Publisher :

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 30,43 MB

Release : 2020

Category : Design

ISBN : 9780500241554

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Book Description

Type design is often presented in either such detail-obsessed complexity that it is not welcoming to beginners, or it is so simplified with the help of apps and web services that the resulting fonts are virtually useless. This book is different. It shows readers how to design professional fonts - without having to find out all of type design's secrets first. Designing Fonts teaches the basics of type design from sketched letters to finished font, offering an uncomplicated but thorough introduction to type design. With easy-to-follow instructions, many examples and professional tips, readers will learn how to design unique typefaces tailor-made for their own projects or customer orders. This book has two parts. Part 1 explains the theoretical, creative and technical basics of type design and font production. Six chapters then cover everything from alphabet to font, showing readers how to find and develop typeface ideas, design matching letters, produce fonts and expand them with special functions. Part 2 comprises eight workshops that explore how to design and implement different kinds of typefaces, from decorative interlocking display fonts with alternative letters to well-developed headline fonts with multiple cuts and OpenType features.



Designing Type

Author : Karen Cheng

Publisher : Yale University Press

Page : 249 pages

File Size : 20,74 MB

Release : 2020-10-20

Category : Design

ISBN : 0300249926

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Book Description

The now-classic introduction to designing typography, handsomely redesigned and updated for the digital age In this invaluable book, Karen Cheng explains the processes behind creating and designing type, one of the most important tools of graphic design. She addresses issues of structure, optical compensation, and legibility, with special emphasis given to the often-overlooked relationships between letters and shapes in font design. In this second edition, students and professional graphic designers alike will benefit from an expanded discussion of the creative practice of designing type—what designers need to consider, their rationale, and issues of accessibility—in the context of contemporary processes for the digital age. Illustrated with more than 400 diagrams that demonstrate visual principles and letter construction, ranging from informal progress sketches to final type designs and diagrams, this essential guide analyzes a wide range of classic and modern typefaces, including those from many premier type foundries. Cheng’s text covers the history of type, the primary systems of typeface classification, the parts of a letter, and the effects of new technology on design methodology, among many other key topics.



Lettering & Type: Creating Letters and Designing Typefaces

Author : Bruce Willen

Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press

Page : 150 pages

File Size : 47,60 MB

Release : 2009-09-23

Category : Architecture

ISBN : 9781568987651

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Book Description

A guide to type design and lettering that includes relevant theory, history, explanatory diagrams, exercises, photographs, and illustrations, and features interviews with various designers, artists, and illustrators.



Just My Type

Author : Simon Garfield

Publisher : Profile Books

Page : 352 pages

File Size : 44,71 MB

Release : 2010-10-21

Category : Reference

ISBN : 1847652921

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Book Description

Just My Type is not just a font book, but a book of stories. About how Helvetica and Comic Sans took over the world. About why Barack Obama opted for Gotham, while Amy Winehouse found her soul in 30s Art Deco. About the great originators of type, from Baskerville to Zapf, or people like Neville Brody who threw out the rulebook, or Margaret Calvert, who invented the motorway signs that are used from Watford Gap to Abu Dhabi. About the pivotal moment when fonts left the world of Letraset and were loaded onto computers ... and typefaces became something we realised we all have an opinion about. As the Sunday Times review put it, the book is 'a kind of Eats, Shoots and Leaves for letters, revealing the extent to which fonts are not only shaped by but also define the world in which we live.' This edition is available with both black and silver covers.



Practical Font Design

Author : David Bergsland

Publisher : Lulu.com

Page : 287 pages

File Size : 28,78 MB

Release : 2011-02-08

Category : Computers

ISBN : 1458387887

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Book Description

Practical Font Design has built a niche for itself among graphic and Web designers who want to build their own fonts: especially with the first book. I learned a lot since I wrote that first book. This radically revised, updated, and expanded third edition combines the first two books. They are rearranged so they make a lot more sense and some brand new material is added. This is a quick introduction showing a workflow to build new fonts using FontLab 5. Fourteen fonts are developed in this book including an 8-font text family and a companion 4-font sans serif for headers. The techniques are simple and easy to understand. The results are completely under your control.



Type Specific

Author : Charlotte Rivers

Publisher : Rotovision

Page : 168 pages

File Size : 10,66 MB

Release : 2005

Category : Art

ISBN :

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Book Description

Type Specific shows designers how typefaces designed for a specific purpose succeed by exploring each of the features that must be considered. These include letterforms, counterspaces, cross sections, ascenders/descenders and junctions and how they work, in both print and screen, across a range of applications: posters, directories, newspapers and magazines, CD covers, packaging, signage and film titles - including The Kitchen's organic paintbrush front for the promotion of Levi's Vintage Clothing and Saturday's elegant stencil-style face for the Chen Pascual identity. The whole gamut from free-from to precision is explored.



The Graphic Design Idea Book

Author : Gail Anderson

Publisher : Laurence King Publishing

Page : 128 pages

File Size : 29,53 MB

Release : 2016-04-13

Category : Design

ISBN : 1780679939

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Book Description

This book serves as an introduction to the key elements of good design. Broken into sections covering the fundamental elements of design, key works by acclaimed designers serve to illustrate technical points and encourage readers to try out new ideas. Themes covered include narrative, colour, illusion, ornament, simplicity, and wit and humour. The result is an instantly accessible and easy to understand guide to graphic design using professional techniques.



Typeface

Author : Tamye Riggs

Publisher : Springer

Page : 260 pages

File Size : 23,47 MB

Release : 2009-07-29

Category : Architecture

ISBN :

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Book Description

"Typeface: Classic Typography for Contemporary Design is a unique sourcebook featuring forty-six classic typefaces that continue to resonate with today's most influential graphic designers."--Inside cover.





The Big Book of Font Combinations

Author : Douglas Bonneville

Publisher :

Page : 374 pages

File Size : 45,63 MB

Release : 2019-02

Category : Graphic design (Typography)

ISBN : 9780960043910

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Book Description

The BBOFC is an expansive collection of carefully crafted typeface pair samples. The font pairings in BBOFC will inspire you and give you back time you need for your design projects. Use the combination examples straight out of the BBOFC in your next project, with other typeface software, or use them as a springboard for your own creativity. However you use the BBOFC, it's bound to inspire and is a trustworthy companion to consult for all kinds of design projects and general study of typography.



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