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Understanding Type for Desktop Publishing - Hardcover

Luna, Paul

 
9780948905766: Understanding Type for Desktop Publishing

Synopsis

Understanding Type for Desktop Publishing is a guide to typographic concepts and principles for DTP users who may be unfamiliar with the range of options previously only available to the professional designer and printer. It will help DTP users make more informed decisions about design and produce more readable, effective documents.
Starting with examples of familiar typographic idiom--newspapers, road signs, etc.--the first part discusses the principles of type, different typefaces and typographic measurement; and gives advice on ways of setting type and choosing a typeface. The second part shows individual typefaces in action to demonstrate appropriate and inappropriate uses, and to stimulate awareness of the range of possibilities and potential of various typefaces.

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Synopsis

This is a guide to type concepts and principles for desktop publishing users who may be unfamiliar with the range of typographic options previously only available to the professional designer and printer. It aims to help the DTP user make more informed decisions about design and produce more readable, effective DTP documents. Starting with examples of familiar typographic idiom (such as newspapers and road signs), it discusses the principles of type, different typefaces and typographic measurement, and gives advice on ways of setting type and choosing a typeface. It then shows individual typefaces in action to demonstrate appropriate and inappropriate uses and to stimulate awareness of the range of possibilities and potential of various faces.

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