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Lädt ... Getting it Right with Type: The Dos and Don'ts of Typographyvon Victoria Squire
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Typography is no longer the specialist domain of the typesetter: these days anyone who uses a computer has access to a wide range of typefaces and effects. This book offers an introduction to the basics of typography, including choosing which typeface to use; adjusting letter-, line-, and word-spacing for improved legibility; understanding kerning and leading; and mastering typographic details, such as italics, punctuation, and line endings. The book is illustrated throughout with practical examples demonstrating good and bad solutions. There are tips for specific design tasks, such as letters, charts, tables, and design for the screen, and a glossary explaining typographic terms. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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It's an odd book. Maybe handy to keep on the office shelf, so that when someone does something awful, you can turn to the relevant page.
But it looks like it's a handy primer guide for newbies, written some time in the forward-looking '70s (OK, maybe the '80s) and yet it's completely unreadable unless you already know what's in here. So revision notes for 1st year students? Weird. It's a great idea for a book, but it falls very short with what it delivers.
It discusses readability in great detail. It even has a couple of pages printed on different types of paper, just to make a point. It discusses every detail and nuance of typeface choice, except that little thing about sans vs serifs. (I told you it looked like the '70s). The only serif they seem to like in here is Rockwell, the great big clumpy boots of type.
Computers don't exist. There's one paragraph about the web. An appendix on Mac keystrokes for special characters (clearly no-one here uses PCs). No discussion of tools with which to achieve these readability goals.
They wrap uncoordinated as "unco-
ordinated". Barbarians. ( )