Type Tricks

Name: Type Tricks
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9789063694586
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By Sofie Beier

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Type Tricks offers a clear and practical guide to the principles and processes involved in typeface design. Written by typography expert Sofie Beier, it serves as both a reference manual and an instructional resource, outlining the key stages of type creation with accessible illustrations. The book is ideal for students and professional designers alike, providing essential tips and guidelines to improve typographic skills and understanding.
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This book is perfect for typography students, type designers, and anyone interested in the craft of typeface design. It aids both learners wanting to sharpen their skills and experienced professionals looking to revisit foundational principles.

This book offers guidelines on type design and contains a number of essential tricks that designers need to know/understand.

Type Tricks' is about typographical rules and the underlying structure of the work process in the design of new typefaces. In that way, it is both a reference book and a user manual. In an illustrative format, it presents the different stages of type design in an easily accessible manner

Description

Type Tricks is about typographical rules and the underlying structure of the work process in the design of new typefaces. In that way, it is both a reference book and a user manual. In an illustrative format, it presents the different stages of type design in an easily accessible manner.

Being an expert as a typography professor, Sofie Beier knows exactly what the students need to know and how they can improve their skills. Type Tricks is not only perfect for students, it also comes in handy for every type designer. It gives them the opportunity to reread information they were taught during their time at school. It's the perfect reference book.

The book contains a number of essential tricks that designers need to know and understand. The typographic guidelines are difficult to remember, but with this book you don't have to remember every single one of them.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9789063694586

Publisher: BIS Publishers B.V.

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 22 June 2017

Country: Netherlands

Imprint: BIS Publishers B.V.

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 116.0mm

Height: 161.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 208

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Sofie Beier

About the Author

Sofie Beier is a professor at the Royal Danish Academy, where she is head of the research unit Centre for Visibility Design. In addition to creating the Type Tricks series, she published numerous academic papers on typeface legibility. Her research is focused on improving the reading experience by achieving a better understanding of how different typefaces and letter shapes can influence the way we read.

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