'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. The popular online companion to Thinking with Type (has been revised to reflect the new material in the second edition. Thinking with Type is a type book for everyone: designers, writers, editors, students, and anyone else who works with words. Throughout the book, visual examples show how to be inventive within systems of typographic form-what the rules are and how to break them. This revised edition includes forty-eight pages of new content, including the latest information on style sheets for print and the web, the use of ornaments and captions, lining and non-lining numerals, the use of small caps and enlarged capitals, as well as information on captions, font licensing, mixing typefaces, and hand lettering. (Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A. Thinking with Type is the definitive guide to using typography in visual communication, from the printed page to the computer screen. Thinking with Type, 2nd revised and expanded edition: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students Lupton, Ellen Published by Princeton Architectural Press (2010) ISBN 10: 1568989695 ISBN 13: 9781568989693 New Softcover Quantity: 1 Seller: GF Books, Inc. Sometimes, however, the interface should be allowed to fail. Softcover, 224 pages, full color offset, 7 × 8.Our all time best selling book is now available in a revised and expanded second edition. Thinking with Type by Ellen Lupton 11,801 ratings, 4.11 average rating, 342 reviews Thinking with Type Quotes Showing 1-3 of 3 Readers usually ignore the typographic interface, gliding comfortably along literacy’s habitual groove.

Published by Princeton Architectural Press, 2012 If you love font and lettering books, Ellen Lupton's guide reveals the way typefaces are constructed and how to use them most effectively. Thinking with Type is the typography book for everyone: designers, writers, editors, students, and anyone else who works with words. With an index, bibliography, a guide to copy editor's marks, and a selection of free advice! With information on: style sheets for print and the web ornaments and captions lining and non-lining numerals small caps and enlarged capitals mixing typefaces font formats and font licensing.Īlso includes demonstrations of basic typography design, helpful exercises, and dozens of color illustrations.

Visual examples show how to be inventive within systems of typographic form, including what the rules are, and how to break them.

This modern classic covers all typography essentials, from typefaces and type families, to kerning and tracking, to using a grid. The definitive guide to using typography in visual communicationĬlear and focused guidance on how letters, words, and paragraphs should be aligned, spaced, ordered, and shaped.