Typography
By: Denise Gonzales Crisp ; with primers by William F. Temple ; series editor Meredith Davis
Contributors: Temple, William F.
Series: Graphic design in context; Graphic design in context
Publisher: Thames and Hudson
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780500290507
Subjects: Graphic design (Typography); Printing; Type and type-founding
Description: This volume frames typography as a system of interrelated concerns as much as it summarises the traditional 'craft' that is the usual content of books on typography. It describes the constantly shifting terrain of typography and provides ways of thinking about typographic relationships that adapt to content, contexts, and audiences.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 247) and index.
Table of contents: title: Relational systems; title: Reading systems; title: Formal systems; title: Materiality; title: Language systems; title: The disorder of things.