Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works by Erik Spiekermann

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Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works by Erik Spiekermann

A guide to typography. It draws in the reader with its design and layout, making use of more than 200 illustrations and photographs. It explains in everyday layman's terms what type is and how you can use it to enhance legibility, meaning, and aesthetic enjoyment. It also includes chapters on Web typography and other forms of online text display.

Erik Spiekermann is an internationally renowned graphic designer and the founder of MetaDesign. He wrote the bestselling first edition of this book and many articles on type and typography, as well as Rhyme and Reason: A Typographic Novel. He is also the designer of typefaces such as FF Meta and ITC Officina. He lives and works in Berlin.

E.M. Ginger is a typographic consultant, editor, and freelance writer in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has worked with type and typography for two decades. She was managing editor of the journal Fine Print for twelve years and the editor of several bestselling cookbooks.

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ISBN 13 9780201703399
ISBN 10 0201703394
Title Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works
Author Erik Spiekermann
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Pearson Education (US)
Year published 2002-07-25
Number of pages 192
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.