Typographic Design: Form and Communication
by Philip B. Meggs, Ben Day, Rob Carter
Typographic Design: Form and Communication, 5th Edition
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1: The Evolution of Typography
- From the origins of writing to Gutenberg's invention of movable type: 3150 B.C.-A.D.1450
- Typography from Gutenberg to the nineteenth century: A.D. 1450–1800
- The nineteenth century and the Industrial Revolution: A.D. 1800–1899
- Typography in the twentieth century: 1900–2000.
- A new century and millennium begin: 2000
- 2: The Anatomy of Typography
- 3: Syntax and Communication
- 4: Legibility
- Distinguishing characteristics of letters
- The nature of words
- Capital and lowercase letters
- Interletter and interword spacing
- Type size, line length, and interline spacing
- Weight
- Character width
- Italics and Obliques
- Legibility and color
- Justified and unjustified typography
- Paragraphs and indentions
- Legibility and electronic page design
- Typographic details
- 5: The Typographic Grid
- 6: The Typographic Message
- 7: Typographic Technology
- 8: Typography on Screen
- 9: Case Studies in Typographic Design
- 10: Typographic Design Education
- Generation of a typographic sign from a gestural mark
- Letter/digit configurations
- Urban letterform studies
- Inventing sign systems
- Letterform analysis
- Flowering typography
- Sequential typographic forms in space
- Visual organization and grid structures
- Introduction to systems design
- Designing with a single letter
- Typography and image transformations
- Experimental compositions with found typography
- Syntactic explorations using onomatopoeic terms
- Type chronology booklet
- Expressive typography: form amplifies message
- Computer improvisation and manipulation
- Observing systems in our surroundings
- Interpretive typography: exploring legibility and impact
- Symphony poster series
- Information design: changing typographic parameters
- Typographic cubes
- Calendar typography
- Unity of form and communication
- Typeface history posters
- Self-initiated typographic identity program: Holland Air
- Type in motion
- Blending Latin and non-Latin typographic forms
- Type and image in the third dimension
- Comparative relationships: type and image
- Directional poster: from your house to the university
- Graphic-design history posters and booklet
- Animated Web site pages
- Typezine: my favorite typeface
- Type history posters
- Typeface design: mind/machine
- Experimental typographic system
- Banknote design
- Type as metaphor
- Form and counterform, scale and proportion: “Ne var, ne yok?”
- 11: Typographic Design Process
- 12: Type Specimens
- Old Style
- Adobe Garamond
- Adobe Minion Display Regular
- Additional Old Style fonts
- Sans Serif
- Univers 55
- Meta Normal
- Futura Book
- Additional Sans Serif fonts
- Transitional
- Baskerville Regular
- Georgia Regular
- Additional Transitional fonts
- Modern
- Bauer Bodoni Regular
- Additional Modern fonts
- Egyptian
- Serifa Roman
- Archer Book
- Additional Egyptian fonts
- Selected Decorative fonts
- A chronology of typeface designs
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Picture Credits
- Index
Saint Barbara. Polychromed walnut sculpture, fifteenth-century German or French. The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
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