Product Description: In this full-color book, author Robin Williams and illustrator John Tollett celebrate the new wave of type design known as "grunge" typography. The book consists of famous and not-so-famous quotes about type and design set in a range of grunge fonts, using rule-breaking layouts...read more

Product Description: This comprehensive guide to creating and using digital type, both in print and for the web, is an essential reference for students and practicing designers alike. An introduction offers a brief history and discusses font classification, software, and the ways in which the computer has revolutionized typography...read more

Product Description: In the pioneering tradition of Computer Color Chronicle Books offers Computer Type, which features examples of 50 of the most important and useful typefaces available on computer.

Pages cut into four separate sections allow the direct comparison of forty-five typefaces and one hundred five type fonts

Product Description: Book by Borman, Jami Lynne

Product Description: Calligraphy is traditionlly a pen-to-paper craft but in this digital age even the fluidity of the pen can be replicated on a computer. Whether you are a traditional calligrapher who wants to know what digital has to offer, or someone familiar with computers who would like to create their own display lettering, this book will introduce you to the techniques of ink-free calligraphy...read more

Product Description: Appealing to graphic designers and desktop publishers, Cavanaugh's guide provides an aesthetic and technical approach to the discussion of typography. To compliment the text, over 200 fonts are included that showcase the art and practicality of typography...read more

Product Description: Everything you really need to know about typefaces Digital Typography Sourcebook is your ultimate font reference—it tells you how to identify different fonts, where to buy them and how much you should pay, what fonts to avoid, and how to create professional looking designs...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Today's computer technologies have allowed for the creation of new spaces for typographic communication. This collection of drawings, photographs,?and typefaces explores some of the ideas that might govern the logic of?three-dimensional type...read more

Product Description: Book by Stopke, Judy, Staley, Chip, McClaran, Jeanne L.

Steven Heller and Anne Fink Designed by Michael Ian Kaye Faces on the Edge Type in the Digital Age More than any other graphic medium, today’s fontography mirrors the traditions, eccentricities, and trends of modern society. Faces on the Edge, by prominent art director and author Steven Heller, is a spellbinding survey of the revolutionary effects of digital type design on 20th-century typography. More than 200 typefaces, from the classically inspired to the exuberantly (near) illegible, are featured in this compilation, illustrating how new technologies have dramatically increased the possibilities of type design. Included are typefaces from many of the world’s most innovative type foundries, such as Emigre Fonts, FontShop International, Garage Fonts, Thirst Fonts, Exploding Fonts, and T-26, and represents some of the finest type designers such as Zuzana Licko, Rudy VanderLans, Jonathan Hoefler, Tobias Frere-Jones, Ed Fella, and Barry Deck. The Typefaces are Organized into Six Kinds of Fontography: Rebirths and Revivals • Greeking Roman • Digital Carvings Off the Wall • Optical Delusions • Lots O’ Laffs Typefaces are identified by date, designer, and foundry; a brief description text places each in the larger context of digital type history. With useful information on how to obtain and apply each typeface, Faces on the Edge is an indispensable resource for graphic designers, desktop designers, and students alike. Over 200 illustrations in color and black and white document the real-life application of these inventive typefaces in popular magazines, advertising, posters, and multimedia. Faces on the Edge is a vivid, timely account of what is undeniably a significant era of type design. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The type that designers use can say as much to their audience as the actual words on the page.  But until now, Web designers have had an extremely limited palette of typefaces from which to choose -- essentially, Arial (yawn), Times (yawn), and Georgia (yawwwwwn)...read more

Shows how to install, convert, and use fonts, and includes tips on creating and customizing them

Product Description: Fonts. They seem to have a life of their own. And they can cause no end of heartache to the harried desktop or webtop publisher. Perfectly lovely documents on screen can suddenly transmogrify into a perfect nightmare when printed...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Discusses fonts, faces, and characters; computer typography, hardware, troubleshooting, and printing

Product Description: The newly revised edition of this lively typography primer demystifies fonts for beginning through intermediate Macintosh users. It provides clear, simple-to-follow instruction in basic typography concepts. Plus it gives the low-down on new font technologies, new ways to buy type, TrueType, and expanded coverage...read more

Provides instructions on creating effective Web and print pages, covering such topics as typeface, spacing, punctuation, fonts, and special characters.

Product Description: The three chapters in this beautifully designed book address three fundamental needs of type users. The first chapter provides a grounding in the origins & evolution of typography, & describes Stone s process in designing his typefaces on, & for, the computer...read more