thinking with type 2nd edition by ellen lupton

Visual examples show how to be inventive within systems of typographic form, including what the rules are, and how to break them. The book covers all typography essentials, from typefaces and type families, to kerning and tracking, to using a grid. Ellen Lupton provides clear and focused guidance on how letters, words, and paragraphs should be aligned, spaced, ordered, and shaped.

An author of numerous books and articles on design, she is a public-minded critic, frequent lecturer, and AIGA Gold Medalist.'Thinking with Type is to typography what Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time is to physics.'-I Love Typography The best-selling Thinking with Type in a revised and expanded second edition: Thinking with Type is the definitive guide to using typography in visual communication. Įllen Lupton is curator of contemporary design at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City and director of the Graphic Design MFA program at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore. If you love font and lettering books, Ellen Lupton's guide reveals the way typefaces are constructed and how to use them most effectively.įans of Thinking with Type will love Ellen Lupton's new book Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers. Thinking with Type is the typography book for everyone: designers, writers, editors, students, and anyone else who works with words. Plus, new eye-opening demonstrations of basic typography design with letters, helpful exercises, and dozens of additional illustrations.

the use of small caps and enlarged capitals.

This revised edition includes forty-eight pages of new content with the latest information on:

The best-selling Thinking with Type in a revised and expanded second edition: Thinking with Type is the definitive guide to using typography in visual communication. 'Thinking with Type is to typography what Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time is to physics.'- I Love Typography

Thinking with type 2nd edition by ellen lupton