Typography essentials: 100 design principles for working with type
Ina Saltz
- Resource Type:
- E-Book
- Edition:
- Revised and updated
- Publication:
- Beverly, MA : Rockport Publishers, an imprint of the Quarto Group, [2019]
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- Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Letter
- 1. Using letter as form
- 2. Using counter spaces as form
- 3. Letterform details
- 4. Emotional content implied by the text
- 5. Historical connotation
- 6. Considering the medium
- 7. Honoring dignity
- 8. handmade solution
- 9. Being expressive
- 10. Staying neutral
- 11. Considering background contrast
- 12. Emphasis using weight
- 13. Emphasis using contrasting weights
- 14. Emphasis using size
- 15. Emphasis using contrasting sizes
- 16. Proper smart quotes
- 17. hyphen, the en dash, and the em dash
- 18. High contrast in reverse
- 19. Extreme scaling
- 20. Heavy flourishes
- 21. Thinking like a typesetter
- 22. Using display versions
- 23. Using numbers
- 24. Dingbats and pictograms
- 25. Theory of Relativity 1
- Word
- 26. "bad" typeface?
- 27. Typographic abominations
- 28. Hierarchy using position
- 29. Hierarchy using size
- 30. Hierarchy using weight
- 31. Hierarchy using color
- 32. Hierarchy using contrast
- 33. Hierarchy using orientation
- 34. Hierarchy using special effects
- 35. To kern or not to kern
- 36. Type as image
- 37. Three-dimensional type
- 38. Repetition
- 39. Deconstructed type
- 40. Vertical stacking
- 41. See the shape
- 42. Using cases
- 43. rule of three typefaces
- 44. Mixing many typefaces
- 45. Mixing type using contrast, weight, or color
- 46. Mixing typefaces using historical compatibility
- 47. Familiarity breeds legibility
- 48. Properly weighted small caps and fractions
- 49. Using the right type
- 50. Theory of Relativity II
- Paragraph
- 51. Invisible typography
- 52. Highly evident typography
- 53. Less is more
- 54. More is more
- 55. Letter spacing and word spacing
- 56. Hyphenation and justification
- 57. Tracking guidelines
- 58. "color" of the text type
- 59. Considering typographic mass
- 60. Pattern, gradation, and texture
- 61. Basic leading principles
- 62. Optimum line lengths
- 63. Increasing leading
- 64. Tightly stacked lines
- 65. Indicating paragraphs
- 66. Initial caps and drop caps
- 67. Opening paragraphs
- 68. Orphans and widows
- 69. "Rivers" of space
- 70. Eschew decorative type
- 71. Celebrate decorative type
- 72. Text overlapping images
- 73. Text overlapping text
- 74. text block effect
- 75. Theory of Relativity III
- Page
- 76. Legibility, legibility, legibility
- 77. Legibility taking a back seat
- 78. Limiting typefaces
- 79. One type family
- 80. Six necessary typefaces
- 81. need for every typeface
- 82. Text typefaces versus display typefaces
- 83. Organized entry points
- 84. Systematizing hierarchy
- 85. Using justified type
- 86. Using flush-left, rag-right type
- 87. Using centered, asymmetrical, and flush-right type
- 88. multicolumn text grid
- 89. uneven text grid
- 90. Typographic "furniture"
- 91. Decks, callouts, and pull quotes
- 92. "birth and death" of the text
- 93. Chaos versus order
- 94. Commentary, marginalia, and alternate languages
- 95. Tables and charts
- 96. Navigational devices
- 97. Margins and gutters
- 98. Framing the text
- 99. Floating in space
- 100. Theory of Relativity IV.
- Author/Creator:
- Saltz, Ina , author
- Languages:
- English
- Language Notes:
- Item content: English
- General Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 25, 2019).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Call Numbers:
- Z246 .S223 2019eb
- ISBNs:
- 9781631596483 (electronic book)
1631596489 (electronic book)
1631596470 [Invalid]
9781631596476 [Invalid] - OCLC Numbers:
- 1085787032
- Other Control Numbers:
- EBC5695648 (source: MiAaPQ)
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