Thinking with Type 2nd revised ed.: A Critical Guide for Designers Writers Editors & Students

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"Thinking with Type is to typography what Stephen Hawkings 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 Luptons guide reveals the way typefaces are constructed and how to use them most effectively. Fans of Thinking with Type will love Ellen Luptons new book Extra Bold: A Feminist Inclusive Anti-racist Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers.