How to design a typeface
By: Design Museum ; [text written by Elizabeth Wilhide]
Contributors: Design Museum (London, England)
Publisher: Conran Octopus; Conran
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 107
ISBN-13: 9781840915488
Subjects: Type and type-founding; Design
Description: How to Design a Typeface tells you everything you need to know and looks at the principles and processes of designing type, from its historical roots and interaction with materials and techniques to developing digitized type for modern use. In a working case study Jonathan Barnbrook, on of the world's foremost typographers, traces the design and development of his typeface Priori from start to finish and reveals what it takes to create a successful design.
Notes: Includes index.