The Elements of Typographic Style | 
 enlarge | Author: Robert Bringhurst
Publisher: Hartley and Marks Publishers
Category: Book
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Rating:  82 reviews
Sales Rank: 2261
Media: Paperback
Edition: Third Edition
Pages: 352
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9 x 5.2 x 1
ISBN: 0881792063
Dewey Decimal Number: 686.224
EAN: 9780881792065
ASIN: 0881792063
Publication Date: October 9, 2004
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This lovely, well-written book is concerned foremost with creating beautiful typography and is essential for professionals who regularly work with typographic designs. Author Robert Bringhurst writes about designing with the correct typeface; striving for rhythm, proportion, and harmony; choosing and combining type; designing pages; using section heads, subheads, footnotes, and tables; applying kerning and other type adjustments to improve legibility; and adding special characters, including punctuation and diacritical marks. The Elements of Typographic Style teaches the history of and the artistic and practical perspectives on a variety of type families that are available in Europe and America today. The last section of the book classifies and displays many type families, offers a glossary of typography terms, and lists type designers and type foundries. The book briefly mentions digital typography, but otherwise ignores it, focusing instead on general typography and page- and type-design issues. Its examples include text in a variety of languages--including English, Russian, German, and Greek--which is particularly helpful if your work has a multinational focus.
Product Description
Renowned typographer and poet Robert Bringhurst brings clarity to the art of typography with this masterful style guide. Combining the practical, theoretical, and historical, this edition is completely updated, with a thorough exploration of the newest innovations in intelligent font technology, and is a must-have for graphic artists, editors, or anyone working with the printed page using digital or traditional methods.
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 Elements of Typographic Style, Bringhurst July 4, 2008
Jeanne Anderson
An excellent book; extremely densely written. Everything you wanted to know about typography: rules, opinions and explanations of good typesetting, spacing, design, structure of the book, creating the page (with mathematical structural references and histories). There is a chapter on analphabetical symbols. Appendices A through E cover extensively the working alphabet (international)- including the alphabets of many type faces; characters; terms; type designers; and typefoundries. His first rule: respect the text.
 holy bible of type June 17, 2008
Bryan Durco (lansing mi)
Get reference book, has everything to know about type. Very heavy in content , not exactly a light read. A must have for anyone serious about typography. Very very good.
Classic foundational text in typography May 31, 2008
Sean McNaughton (Syracuse, NY)
I'm a type geek -- for which I make neither excuse nor apology. And while your garden variety Barnes and Noble or Borders will have plenty books on typography (and more on calligraphy), this is a must-have for the serious type nerds out there. Bringhurst's book is an elegant example of all he writes about typography -- it's a pleasure to read the text itself precisely because of its beautiful design (in a paperback!) and typography.
Be careful, though -- exposure to this is likely to significantly decrease your ability to tolerate the millions of poorly designed and typeset books out there. Bringhurst gets remarkably technical in areas (and I still don't understand his comparison between design proportions and musical scales), but this book is absolutely critical for any designer.
 packed full of info- but a huge read April 8, 2008
Gimmeadog (USA)
This book has tons of great information, but is massive, and very tough to hunt through for specific information.
Perfect for typography students April 6, 2008
Mr. Chris Thorpe
I've been interested in typography for as long as I've been interested in design, but I struggled with some of the terminology, definitions, what to do where and how to do it. I've read countless books on it, hoping to glean some sort of insight into the magic of the typographic page. And then my lecturer recommended this book.
It's wonderful - easy and entertaining to read, Bringhurst offers suggestions rather than commandments. Each time he does so it is explained clearly and thoroughly.
I highly recommend this book to all typography students, to those who love type but just don't where to start, and to those who have years of experience with type: this book will be worth your while.
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