Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students
By Ellen Lupton
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About this ebook
The best-selling Thinking with Type in a revised and expanded second edition: Thinking with Type is the definitive guide to using typography in visual communication. Ellen Lupton provides clear and focused guidance on how letters, words, and paragraphs should be aligned, spaced, ordered, and shaped. The book covers all typography essentials, from typefaces and type families, to kerning and tracking, to using a grid. Visual examples show how to be inventive within systems of typographic form, including what the rules are, and how to break them.
This revised edition includes forty-eight pages of new content with the latest information on:
• style sheets for print and the web
• the use of ornaments and captions
• lining and non-lining numerals
• the use of small caps and enlarged capitals
• mixing typefaces
• font formats and font licensing
Plus, new eye-opening demonstrations of basic typography design with letters, helpful exercises, and dozens of additional illustrations.
Thinking with Type is the typography book for everyone: designers, writers, editors, students, and anyone else who works with words. If you love font and lettering books, Ellen Lupton's guide reveals the way typefaces are constructed and how to use them most effectively.
Fans of Thinking with Type will love Ellen Lupton's new book Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers.
Ellen Lupton
Ellen Lupton is a designer, writer, and educator. She has written numerous books about graphic design, including Thinking with Type, Graphic Design Thinking, and Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers. She teaches in the Graphic Design MFA program at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore (MICA), where she proudly serves as the Betty Cooke and William O. Steinmetz Design Chair. She is Curator Emerita at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City, where her exhibitions included Herbert Bayer: Bauhaus Master and The Senses: Design Beyond Vision. Lupton loves reading, writing, teaching, and learning new things about design.
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Reviews for Thinking with Type
186 ratings9 reviews
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Not terribly in-depth, but a good introduction to the concepts of page design (whether paper or web) and typography. Most of which I knew but this is nicely condensed with some examples scattered along the way. I would recommend it to people getting into typography or design, proabably too simple for someone with experience but a good primer.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Beautifully written and typeset. I thought reading about type would be boring. Not in this book.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I've read many, many books on typography and I still learned new things from this one. The section on individual letters is very strong, including information on the parts of a letter and on the history of typefaces, with more information on 20th century typefaces than I've seen in comparable reference works.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Good, but just not what I expected. Has explanations and discussion between examples, sharing ideas on letterform, text, and use of grid. Includes history and good points on computer and web-based usage. But I found I like other type books better (i.e. Carl Dair's 'Design With Type')
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Content is good to know the very basics of typography.
Not a fan of the formatting though. Very hard to read unless zoomed (it's not a document with text, but I guess good scanned images of the book spreads) - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5My favorite feature is the "type crime" showing misuse of various principles.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Can not zoom, impossible to read small text due to scribd function.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Superb introduction to the basics of type, typography and layout.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Informative. In depth.