Typography Pocket Essentials by Alastair Campbell

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Typography Pocket Essentials by Alastair Campbell

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Summary

Typography is the most ubiquitous of the graphic arts. This book offers an overview of the history of the art, before going on to introduce the key principles and techniques of effective typography. It is suitable for anyone who can master the basic principles of type layout and create pages that are easy on the eye and captivate the reader.

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Typography Pocket Essentials by Alastair Campbell

Typography is the most ubiquitous of the graphic arts, with all of us now having access to innumerable fonts and the typographic tools that can, in the right hands, lift any text from the mundane to the beautiful. Opening with an overview of the history of the art, Typography Pocket Essentials introduces the key principles and techniques of typography, and presents 200 of the most useful and important fonts, making it a handy primer and essential reference guide all rolled into one.

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Alastair Campbell founded the Ilex Press and was its Publisher for 13 years. He has lectured extensively throughout Europe on design, typography and illustration, and holds the coveted MacUser (U.S.) "Eddy" award for the Best New Graphic Resource, won by his mapping software Mountain High Maps. Alastair is also the author of numerous books on graphic design such as The New Designer's Handbook and The Digital Designer's Bible.
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ISBN 13 9781781571156
ISBN 10 1781571155
Title Typography Pocket Essentials
Author Alastair Campbell
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Octopus Publishing Group
Year published 2014-02-10
Number of pages 224
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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