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Type, form & function : a handbook on the fundamentals of typography / Jason Tselentis.

By: Material type: TextTextBeverly, Massachusetts : Rockport Publishers, 2011Description: 208 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781592536740 (pbk.)
  • 1592536743 (pbk.)
Other title:
  • Type form and function
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 686.224 TSE 002750
Contents:
Chapter 1: Form Words with Zuzana Licko Letter fundamentals Type design Transfromations Letters as identity Chapter 2: Composition Words with Amanda Altman Text The grid Hierarchy + layout Contrast Chapter 3. Principles Words with Patrizia Kommerell &​ Gabriel Shalom Readability Formal issues Color Three dimensions Chapter 4: Experimentation Words with Oded Ezer Alternate media The play principle Meaning Publishing boundaries.
Summary: Typology is a useful, comprehensive typography resource that both students and professional designers should have in their library. It looks at the influences of modern typography and symbols going back through time and examines certain type treatments and movements in design and logo types. It focuses on how type works and emphasizes typographic fundamentals, while touching on logo/​logotype design and page layout (print and interactive). This book promises to guide designers through the visual typographic clutter to make their designed messages more meaningful.
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Book Book Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore 686.224 TSE 002750 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 002750

Includes bibliographical references (p. 204).

Chapter 1: Form
Words with Zuzana Licko
Letter fundamentals
Type design
Transfromations
Letters as identity
Chapter 2: Composition
Words with Amanda Altman
Text
The grid
Hierarchy + layout
Contrast
Chapter 3. Principles
Words with Patrizia Kommerell &​ Gabriel Shalom
Readability
Formal issues
Color
Three dimensions
Chapter 4: Experimentation
Words with Oded Ezer
Alternate media
The play principle
Meaning
Publishing boundaries.

Typology is a useful, comprehensive typography resource that both students and professional designers should have in their library. It looks at the influences of modern typography and symbols going back through time and examines certain type treatments and movements in design and logo types. It focuses on how type works and emphasizes typographic fundamentals, while touching on logo/​logotype design and page layout (print and interactive). This book promises to guide designers through the visual typographic clutter to make their designed messages more meaningful.

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