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Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: 01. Brief History of the Alphabet and Type
• 02. Letters and Their Characteristics
• Introduction
• Shape of Letters
• Anatomy of Letterforms
• Stress of Characters
• Understanding Typefaces and Fonts
• Terminology
• Type Classification
• Type Variations and Modifications
• Exercise: The Structure of Letterforms
• Assignment: Type Anatomy and Characteristics
• Assignment: Ligature Design
• 03. Indesign® Software Basics
• InDesign® Tools Panel and Menus
• Control Panel
• Setting Up a Document
• Master Pages
• Master Page Elements
• 04. Mechanics of Type

• Type Measurement
• Type Sizes
• Em and En
• Character Width and Sidebearing
• Spacing
• Letter Spacing (Tracking)
• Word Space
• Leading/Line Spacing
• Alignment
• Text Separators
• Legibility and Readability
• Hyphenation and Line Breaks
• Widows and Orphans
• Exercise: Text Setting and Readability
• 05. Setting Displaytype
• Selecting Display Type For Large Point Sizes
• Kerning
• Adjusting Word Spaces
• Line Spacing Display Type
• Breaking Lines
• Vertical Alignment
• Exercise: Kerning Type
• 06. Other Typographic Elements
• Ligatures
• Numerals
• Small Caps
• Punctuation
• Hyphen/Em Dash/En Dash
• Space Markers
• Feet and Inches
• Subtraction, Multiplication, and Dimension Signs
• Superiors/inferiors/Ordinals
• Other Glyphs
• Styling URLs
• Character Positions and Baseline Shift
• Key Commands for Common Characters
• 07. Typographic Hierarchy
• Choosing Typefaces
• Combining Typefaces
• Typographic Contrasts
• Creating Emphasis
• Assignment: Hierarchy and Structure
• 08. Layout and Structure
• Foundation: Space
• Page Navigation
• Structure
• Format
• Grids
• Constructing the Page Grid
• Combination Grids
• Using Grids
• White Space
• Assignment: Type Specimen Poster
• Assignment: Grid Studies
• 09. Page Elements and Specifications
• Heads and Subheads
• Body Text
• Tabular Material
• Callouts and Pull Quotes
• Extracts/Block Quotations/Excerpts
• Captions
• Author Bylines
• Footnotes/Endnotes
• Running Heads and Footlines
• Folios (Page Numbers)
• Multi-Page Formats
• Pacing
• Type Specification
• Manuscript Mark-Up
• Proofreaders' Marks
• Assignment: Type Specimen Book
• Assignment: Design History Booklet
• 10. Using Indesign® Styles
• Creating Paragraph Styles
• Creating Character Styles
• Importing Styles from Other InDesign® Documents
• Applying Paragraph Styles
• Applying Character Styles.

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Author/Creator:

Krysinski, Mary Jo , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The art of type and typography: explorations in use and practice [by Krysinski, M.J.]

Subjects:

Printing

Type and type-founding

General Notes:

Includes index.
Description based on: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 26, 2017).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

Z246 .K79 2018eb

ISBNs:

9781315301532 (electronic bk.)
1315301539 (electronic bk.)
9781138236882 [Invalid]
9781138236851 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1007520894

Other Control Numbers:

1620835 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp14926756