The essential and bestselling guide to typography from beloved design educator Ellen Lupton--revised and expanded to include new and additional voices, examples, and principles, and a wider array of typefaces.
"Thinking with Type is to typography what Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time is to physics."--I Love Typography
The bestselling Thinking with Type in a revised and expanded third edition: This is the definitive guide to using typography in visual communication. Covering the essentials of typography, this book explores everything from typefaces and type families to kerning and tracking to grids and layout principles.
Ellen Lupton provides clear and focused guidance on how letters, words, and paragraphs should be aligned, spaced, ordered, and shaped. Historical and contemporary examples of graphic design show how to learn the rules and how to break them. Critical essays, eye-opening diagrams, helpful exercises, and dozens of examples and illustrations show readers how to be inventive within systems that inform and communicate.
Featuring 32 pages of new content, the third edition is revised and refined from cover to cover:
The essential and bestselling guide to typography from beloved design educator Ellen Lupton--revised and expanded to include new and additional voices, examples, and principles, and a wider array of typefaces.
"Thinking with Type is to typography what Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time is to physics."--I Love Typography
The bestselling Thinking with Type in a revised and expanded third edition: This is the definitive guide to using typography in visual communication. Covering the essentials of typography, this book explores everything from typefaces and type families to kerning and tracking to grids and layout principles.
Ellen Lupton provides clear and focused guidance on how letters, words, and paragraphs should be aligned, spaced, ordered, and shaped. Historical and contemporary examples of graphic design show how to learn the rules and how to break them. Critical essays, eye-opening diagrams, helpful exercises, and dozens of examples and illustrations show readers how to be inventive within systems that inform and communicate.
Featuring 32 pages of new content, the third edition is revised and refined from cover to cover:
Ellen Lupton is a designer, writer, and educator. She has written numerous books about graphic design, including Thinking with Type, Graphic Design Thinking, and Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-racist, Nonbinary Field Gu
"This new edition of Thinking with Type is an important and
critical must read for anyone interested in typography and design.
It presents, expands, and also challenges the typographic canon
with international and thought-provoking contents. A compelling,
amazing book!"--Loraine Furter, graphic designer and researcher
"Thinking with Type presents the fundamentals of typography and
page design with style and wit. What is particularly exciting is
that this new edition advances the material significantly with
global, more inclusive examples of how type works and for whom. I'm
excited to update my curriculum with the 3rd edition!" --Briar
Levit, designer and Professor of Graphic Design at Portland State
University
"Lovingly made and expertly written, the third edition of Thinking
with Type is a tour-de-force of Latin typography with a serious nod
towards global scripts. This is a must-read for both novices and
experts in the world of type. The book itself is beautifully
designed and is a joy to read through."--Nadine Chahine, typeface
designer and Director of ArabicType Limited "Bursting with
incredible illustrations and diagrams, Thinking with Type offers a
practical guide for designers of all levels who want to understand
the nuances of typographic communication. More excitingly, Lupton's
3rd edition of the book is the inclusive typography guide the
industry deserves as it embraces the humanity behind some of the
world's diverse writing systems, and the languages and cultures who
have contributed to its rich history." --Kaleena Sales, Associate
Professor of Graphic Design and Chair of the Department of Art
Design at Tennessee State University
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