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List Price: $24.95 Our Price: $19.96 You Save: $4.99 (20%) Paperback - 320 pages 2nd edition (January 1997) Hartley & Marks, Dimensions: 0.90 x 9.11 x 5.30 .jpg The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst This well-written book is concerned foremost with creating beautiful typography and is essential for professionals who regularly work with typographic designs. Author Robert Bringhurst writes about designing with the correct typeface; striving for rhythm, proportion, and harmony; choosing and combining type; designing pages; using section heads, subheads, footnotes, and tables; applying kerning and other type adjustments to improve legibility; and adding special characters, including punctuation and diacritical marks. The Elements of Typographic Style teaches the history of and the artistic and practical perspectives on a variety of type families that are available in Europe and America today. The last section of the book classifies and displays many type families, offers a glossary of typography terms, and lists type designers and type foundries. The book briefly mentions digital typography, but otherwise ignores it, focusing instead on general typography and page- and type-design issues. Keywords: Typography: type, fonts, faces, how-to use type, selecting type, using fonts (Type), - 10/5/99