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Typography / Denise Gonzales Crisp ; with primers by William F. Temple ; series editor Meredith Davis.

By: Crisp, Denise Gonzales.
Contributor(s): Temple, William F.
Material type: TextTextSeries: Graphic design in context: Publisher: London : Thames and Hudson, 2012Description: 256 p. : ill (chiefly col.) ; 27 cm.ISBN: 9780500290507 (pbk.); 0500290504 (pbk.).Subject(s): Graphic design (Typography) | Printing | Type and type-foundingDDC classification: 686.22
Contents:
Relational systems -- Reading systems -- Formal systems -- Materiality -- Language systems -- The disorder of things.
Summary: This volume frames typography as a system of interrelated concerns as much as it summarises the traditional 'craft' that is the usual content of books on typography. It describes the constantly shifting terrain of typography and provides ways of thinking about typographic relationships that adapt to content, contexts, and audiences.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 247) and index.

Relational systems -- Reading systems -- Formal systems -- Materiality -- Language systems -- The disorder of things.

This volume frames typography as a system of interrelated concerns as much as it summarises the traditional 'craft' that is the usual content of books on typography. It describes the constantly shifting terrain of typography and provides ways of thinking about typographic relationships that adapt to content, contexts, and audiences.