The Complete Guide to Digital Type
The Complete Guide to Digital Type | Andy Ellison | Humanities | Z 250.7 EL59 2006
Have you ever wonder about the type you use on your screen? How did they made it and the standards every font digital font went through?
Well, I was curious about typography in the last weeks so I looked for a type book that deals with the basics and found this. It was a goldmine. Everything I need to know about type itself is here: from parts of fonts to generating a digital type. The descriptions are really easy to understand and if you will not skip chapter one, you will understand the font jargons on the other chapters.
It has four parts: Typography and fonts, using typography, manipulating type and creating type.
The typography and fonts chapter tackles about the jargons of typography. The pictures and examples are really helpful.
The 2nd chapter on the other hand is about position type on lay-out softwares and some of its features to help you art direct.
Manipulating fonts are a series of tutorials you can do with in photoshop and illustrator.
The last chapter's contents are about how to generate your own typeface.
What I like about this book is it visualizes what it says and how to do it. Descriptions are really short and straight; easy to understand and the lay-out easy to read.