ELLISON, ANDY
This comprehensive guide to creating and using digital type, both in print and for students ans practicing designers alike. an introduction offers a brief history and discusses font classification, software, and the ways in which the computer has revolutionized typography. A section on good typographic practice provides expert advice on issues such as legibility, contrast, size, line length, line spacing, and justification, as well as guidance on how to lay out type and construct grids.
Step by Step explanations are provided for creating a wide range of type effects: drop shadows, wood block style, bevel and emboss, gradients, fading type, type on curves, perforated type, and more.
Designing type for the screen presents a new set of challenges and topics covered include editable HTML, type as an image, and how to choose fonts, type size, and color. A chapter on creating your own fonts discusses how to get the most out of industry -standard software- fontographer and fontlab-and describes how to build up letterforms and refine them in photoshop or illustrator. Numerous creative approaches to font design discussed here include amending existing typefaces, combinig typefaces, and creating fonts out of found objkects.
