Explains what type is, demonstrates how to select it, and examines its use in printed communication.

Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works

Arts & Photography

Spiekermann, Erik

Ginger, E.M.

Graphic Design

Adobe Pr

After two decades as one of the world’s best-selling books on designing with type — including editions in Korean, German, Russian, Portuguese, and Polish — Stop Stealing Sheep &amp; find out how type works continues to educate, entertain, and enlighten design students and type lovers around the globe. In this third edition, acclaimed type designer Erik Spiekermann brings his type classic fully up to date on mobile and web typography. He also includes scores of new visual examples on how to effectively communicate with type and a full selection of new typefaces that are used and referenced throughout the book. If you use type — and these days, almost everyone does — Spiekermann’s engaging, common-sense style will help you understand how to look at type, work with type, choose the best typeface for your message, and express yourself more effectively through design. Compact, yet rich with anecdotes and visual examples, the handbook’s multilayered design not only makes for a fun, fast read; it also invites exploration, ensuring you learn something new each and every time you open it up.

Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works (Graphic Design & Visual Communication Courses)

Adobe Press

This publication continues the ECAL design series that was inaugurated with ECAL Graphic Design and ECAL Typography. Asking whether a computer program could be assigned the routine tasks of letter design, and whether novel forms might evolve through the manipulation of fonts' algorithmic data, the book details the results of several workshops aimed at extending the scope of the typographic game.

ECAL: Typeface as Program

Bilak, Peter

Lehni, Jürg

JRP|Ringier

Erik Spiekermann knows everything about type – and likes to talk about it. He shows that typography is an effective tool for anyone who has something to say and wants or needs to do it on paper or on screen. The out-of-print bestselling typography classic is finally reissued in a revised and extended edition and brought up to date. In a brilliant common-sense style and on the basis of numerous application examples, the author covers everything newcomers and beginners need to know about typography. The content mediation is loosened up by anecdotes and wonderfully illustrated by metaphors from everyday life. He helps to understand how to look at type, work with it and choose the best typeface, with topics ranging from the origins of type, its effect, legibility and distinguishing features to web typography and variable fonts.

Arthur Niggli

FontBook from FSI FontShop International 
For almost 10 years now, FSI FontShop International have published their typeface compendium, well-known in the trade under the name FontBook. The 1500 page edition features 24,500 typeface samples from 65 type foundries. It also includes more than 64,000 references of foundries, font names and font styles, formats, similarities, date of design and availability. 
Some features of FontBook 
* 24,500 type samples * 4,850 font packages and families * 64,000 typographical footnotes and cross-references * 65 type foundries * all type samples in one volume * sorted by style category into nine chapters * lists platform availability * refers to other typefaces in the FontBook which have similar characteristics * designer's name and year of publication; historical references * clear font display, comprehensible icons, footnotes with extra information * tabulators for easy access to the individual chapters * non-latin section with information about encodings and installation in 3 languages * editorial chapter with typographical tips, tricks, trends and examples of application in 3 languages * comprehensive selection of foreign language fonts and utilities * all introductory texts in English, French and German * Pi &amp; Symbols section with enlarged font showings * bound in hardcover * separate 160 page FontFinder showing all the fonts in alphabetical order * FontBook measures 11.75" x 6.5" x 2.125" and weighs approx. 6lbs. 
FSI FontShop International is the only company having monitored and evaluated the world-wide growing market of digitized typefaces consistently and the results are summarized in this reference book. The FontBook editors have selected typefaces according to visual criteria and marketability. Only original fonts are listed, no cloned or copied typeface designs. New vendors in the FontBook include Thirstype, House Industries, Garage Fonts, 2Rebels etc. 
The alphabetical section is now structured according to font styles: Sans, Serif, Slab, Script, Display, Blackletter, Non-Latin/Accented and Pi &amp; Symbols. The Non-Latin/Accented section is sorted first of all according to languages/encodings, in alphabetical order within these categories. 
Another section deals exclusively with the experimental typefaces of FUSE publications which have been released by FSI FontShop International since 1991. 
Entertainment is guaranteed by the new chapter "Holy Type". It contains font hitparades, typographical world records, tips and trends as well as an interview with Adrian Frutiger and background information about barcodes and multi-user licensing. Additionally, the essay "Trivial Typography" examines the growing popularity of industrial typefaces in graphic design. 
Each FontBook comes with a 160 page FontFinder, a separate brochure which lists all FontBook typefaces in one-line showings in alphabetical order. It is the perfect tool for users who know the font name and want to find the FontBook section in which this font will be shown. Experienced users will appreciate the FontFinder as a quick reference guide.

FontBook [Digital Typeface Compendium]

Truong, Mai-Linh Thi

FSI FontShop International

FontBook is a typeface compendium in hardback published by FSI FontShop International and edited by Erik Spiekermann, Jürgen Siebert, and Mai-Linh Thi Truong.

FontBook

Computers & Technology

Siebert, Jurgen

Graphics & Design

Made With Fontfont: Type for Independent Minds

Middendorp, Jan

BIS Publishers

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