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by Philip B. Meggs, Ben Day, Rob Carter
Typographic Design: Form and Communication, 5th Edition
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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
Letterforms analyzed
The typographic font
Historical classification of typefaces
Typographic measurement
The type family
3: Syntax and Communication
Typographic syntax
Typographic space
Visual Hierarchy
ABA form
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
Background
Structure and space
Proportion
Single column grids
Multi-column grids
Modular grids
Improvisational structures
6: The Typographic Message
A multidimensional language
Verbal/visual equations
Function and expression
7: Typographic Technology
Hand composition
Linotype
Monotype
Ludlow
Phototypesetting
Digital typesetting
Electronic page design
8: Typography on Screen
Rendering type on screen
Selecting typefaces
Legibility factors for on-screen typography
Programming for Web design
Structuring Web pages
Museum of Design Zurich http://www.museum-gestaltung.ch
9: Case Studies in Typographic Design
Integrating type and image in poster design
The U.S. National Park Service Unigrid System
Book Design: VAS: An Opera in Flatland
Typographic film titles
Buenos Aires Underground (Subte)
Information Design: Metropolitan World Atlas
A typographic program for the 17th Street Farmers' Market
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
A traditional model
Processing typographic form and ideas
Typographic design process: case studies
Exploring typographic transformation
Now Projector: Design as Projection
Typographic Book Covers
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
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