"How to Design a Typeface" tells you everything you need to know and looks at the principles and processes of designing type, from its historical roots and interaction with materials and techniques to developing digitized type for modern use. In a working case study Jonathan Barnbrook, one of the world's foremost typographers, traces the design and development of his typeface Priori from start to finish and reveals what it takes to create a successful design.
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The Design Museum's mission is to celebrate, entertain, and inform. It is the world's leading museum devoted to contemporary design in every form from furniture to graphics, and architecture to industrial design. It is working to place design at the centre of contemporary culture. It demonstrates both the richness of the creativity to be found in all forms of design, and its importance. Design is a hugely fertile field of inventive new work, as well as a key component underpinning the modern economy. It provides a means for understanding the contemporary world, and, potentially, for making it a better place.
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This book is more of a historic walk-through than a guide on how to design a typeface.
But as a fast overview on typographic history it is pretty good.
If you think of designing a typeface there are much better books out there, like Karen Cheng's "Designing Type".
But as a fast overview on typographic history it is pretty good.
If you think of designing a typeface there are much better books out there, like Karen Cheng's "Designing Type".
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