Book description
Design School: Type is an in-depth guide to the rules and practices of typography, you’ll learn the essential skills of the professional typographer in the detail.
Table of contents
- Introduction
- 1. Type Classifications
- 2. Terminology
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3. Characters and Glyphs
- Variations in Typographic Forms
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Character and Glyph Types
- Small Caps
- Figures
- Ligatures
- Fractions
- Swash Characters
- Non-Typographic Glyphs
- Punctuation Marks
- Question Marks, Apostrophes, and Prime Symbols
- Parentheses and Brackets
- Dashes and Hyphens
- Typographic Glyphs
- Intellectual Property Glyphs
- Currency Glyphs
- Mathematical Glyphs
- Other Typographic Characters
- Bullets
- Diacritical Marks
- End Marks
- Initial Letters
- Paragraph and Section Marks
- Standard Keyboard Functions
- Test your Knowledge
- 4. Typographic Principles
- 5. Selecting Typefaces
- 6. Typography in Practice
- Test your Knowledge Answers
- Resources
- Bibliography
- Index
- Credits
Product information
- Title: Design School: Type
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2017
- Publisher(s): Rockport Publishers
- ISBN: 9781631594397
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