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Thinking with Type, 2nd revised and expanded edition

A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students

9781568989693

Chronicle Books
Available: 07/21/10
7 x 8.5 · 224 pages
Ages 18 years and up
9781568989693
CDN $41.95 · pb

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Ellen Lupton

Thinking with Type is to typography what Stephen Hawking'sA Brief History of Time is to physics."-I Love Typography

The best-sellingThinking 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.

Fans ofThinking with Type will love Ellen Lupton's new bookExtra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers."

Ellen Lupton is the author of thirteen books with PAPress. 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.