Thinking with Type (e-book) (used book) | Ellen Lupton | bookbook.eu

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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 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  
Thinking with Type  is the typography book for designers, writers, editors, students, anyone who works with words on page or screen, and enthusiasts of type and lettering. Readers will also love Ellen Lupton's book  Extra A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers .