Digital Typography Sourcebook

by Marvin Bryan

Everything you really need to know about typefaces Digital Typography Sourcebook is your ultimate font reference--it tells you how to identify different fonts, where to buy them and how much you should pay, what fonts to avoid, and how to create professional looking designs. You'll become familiar with over 400 fonts, including the hottest new designs from some of the world's leading designers. With the help of hundreds of before-and-after examples,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471148113
• ISBN13: 9780471148111
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.5" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Good reference on typography even though examples are weak

This book has a very good overview of typography for a beginner, the development and history of various typefaces, and the anatomy of the characters. The CD contains a few fonts that help make the price of the book a bit better. The actual examples of typefaces in use were terribly amateurish, however, and didn't serve to illustrate the author's point of view very well. I would recommend this book as a reference, but not a guide for using type in practice.