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Design Evolution
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Design Evolution

by Tim Samara
January 2008
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
272 pages
10h 29m
English
Rockport Publishers
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The well of typographic knowledge is vast
and the skills needed to master its complex-
ities are many. There are hundreds, if not
thousands, of interrelated pieces of information
a designer must hold in his or her head while
navigating the bigger issues of concept and
layout: tiny differences between the shapes of
letters, the systematic, rhythmic relationships
between letter strokes and the counterspaces
between them; the spacing between letters,
words, sentences, and paragraphs; conventions
for aligning blocks of type and separating others,
and so on. Becoming sensitive to these optical
details and understanding their effect on spacing, ...
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ISBN: 9781592533879