Classic Typefaces

Classic Typefaces
Author: David Consuegra
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2011-10-10
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1621535827
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Graphic designers will enrich their understanding of American type design and type designers with this unique and extensive reference. The fascinating history of type in America is chronicled through the typefaces and biographies of sixty-two of the most influential type designers, including Linn Boyd Benton, Morris Fuller Benton, and Darius Wells, and through the description and history of nine American type foundries. Complete with samples of 334 different typefaces, and 700 black-and-white illustrations, this eye-popping reference reveals the expansive contribution America has made to the world of type design.

Typeface

Typeface
Author: Tamye Riggs
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2009-07-29
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:
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"Typeface: Classic Typography for Contemporary Design is a unique sourcebook featuring forty-six classic typefaces that continue to resonate with today's most influential graphic designers."--Inside cover.

New Vintage Type

New Vintage Type
Author: Steven Heller
Publisher:
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2009
Genre: Computer fonts
ISBN: 9780500288184
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Here is a lively and lighthearted survey that looks at the role that old and classic fonts from letterpress to slab serifs and beyond play in contemporary graphic design.Written and compiled by the worlds leading graphic-design historian, the book provides hundreds of examples, as well as informed texts that will entertain, edify and inspire a new generation of students and practitioners to appreciate that the past contains typographic riches for the future.

Font

Font
Author: Tamye Riggs
Publisher:
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2010
Genre: Graphic design (Typography)
ISBN: 9782888931515
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Font provides a fully integrated visual sourcebook of classic fonts that still resonate with contemporary style for today’s graphic designers. Each font featured in the book is accompanied by the main character setof the principal font along with “typesheet” style examples of the font with specifications. The characteristics of each font, such as vertically stressed oblique serifs or abrupt contrasts, will be highlighted, and the main font will be juxtaposed with other similar fonts for easy cross-referencing.Uniquely for a typeface sourcebook, each font is also shown in situ to give a real-life working context.Broken down into specific typographic classifications, this classic collection provides an inspirationalresource for graphic designers alongside a fully featured type source, allowing designers to makeconsidered font choices without having to trawl through the vast font libraries on offer from mostfont vendors.

Creative Type

Creative Type
Author: Cees W. de Jong
Publisher: Inmerc
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2005
Genre: Graphic design (Typography)
ISBN: 9789066112506
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Retrofonts

Retrofonts
Author: Gregor Stawinksi
Publisher: Mark Batty Pub
Total Pages: 562
Release: 2010-08-02
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1935613014
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Accompanied by CD-ROM with 222 free fonts.

The Poky Little Puppy

The Poky Little Puppy
Author: Janette Sebring Lowrey
Publisher: Golden Books
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2011
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0375861297
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One night a puppy,who is always late coming home finds there is no dessert for him. On board pages.

The Designer's Dictionary of Color

The Designer's Dictionary of Color
Author: Sean Adams
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2017-04-11
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1683350022
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A guide to the cultural, historical, and social meanings of twenty-seven colors, plus examples of successful usage of each as well as options for palette variations. The Designer’s Dictionary of Color provides an in-depth look at twenty-seven colors key to art and graphic design. Organized by spectrum, in color-by-color sections for easy navigation, this book documents each hue with charts showing color range and palette variations. Chapters detail each color’s creative history and cultural associations, with examples of color use that extend from the artistic to the utilitarian—whether the turquoise on a Reid Miles album cover or the avocado paint job on a 1970s Dodge station wagon. A practical and inspirational resource for designers and students alike, The Designer’s Dictionary of Color opens up the world of color for all those who seek to harness its incredible power.

Classic Type Faces and how to Use Them

Classic Type Faces and how to Use Them
Author: Jacob Israel Biegeleisen
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1995
Genre: Printing
ISBN: 9780486287270
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Exceptionally useful workbook includes 75 widely used alphabets in complete fonts with lower cases. Also, 16 favorite typefaces and 940 body and display type specimens. Many other features.

New Vintage Type

New Vintage Type
Author: Steven Heller
Publisher:
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2007
Genre: Art
ISBN:
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Choose, use, and understand great vintage type with this authoritative guide. Retro is the new modern. And nowhere is that fact more evident than in typography, which today uses vintage type in ads, book and magazine design, movies, and everywhere words convey meaning. Viewers may not even realize that the type itself conveys mood, information, and a sense of style, but graphic designers know the power of vintage type. Now the world’s foremost historian of graphic design presents New Vintage Type, a remarkable rethinking and rediscovery of old and classic typefaces for today’s modern needs. Hundreds of amazing, astounding, and obscure examples from around the world are gathered here, organized into five historically and stylistically grouped sections: the Victorian Age, the Woodtype Era, Art Deco Style, Modern Movement, and the Eccentric Movement. With hundreds of lively and one-of-a-kind examples, plus informed, intriguing tex, New Vintage Type is the graphic designer's guide to choosing and using vintage type for maximum impact.