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Practical Font Design
Practical Font Design has built a niche for itself among graphic and Web designers who want to build their own fonts: especially with the first book. I learned a lot since I wrote that first book. This radically revised, updated, and expanded third edition combines the first two books. They are rearranged so they make a lot more sense and some brand new material is added. This is a quick introduction showing a workflow to build new fonts using FontLab 5. Fourteen fonts are developed in this book including an 8-font text family and a companion 4-font sans serif for headers. The techniques are simple and easy to understand. The results are completely under your control.
Font
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.
Knut Hamsun
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Just My Type
Just My Type is not just a font book, but a book of stories. About how Helvetica and Comic Sans took over the world. About why Barack Obama opted for Gotham, while Amy Winehouse found her soul in 30s Art Deco. About the great originators of type, from Baskerville to Zapf, or people like Neville Brody who threw out the rulebook, or Margaret Calvert, who invented the motorway signs that are used from Watford Gap to Abu Dhabi. About the pivotal moment when fonts left the world of Letraset and were loaded onto computers ... and typefaces became something we realised we all have an opinion about. As the Sunday Times review put it, the book is 'a kind of Eats, Shoots and Leaves for letters, revealing the extent to which fonts are not only shaped by but also define the world in which we live.' This edition is available with both black and silver covers.
Font Technology
Computers have changed typography and prepress as well as printing. Typefaces are manufactured by "digital punch cutters" with a PC, not any more by punch cutters. Typefaces are constructed an output by a new technolgy, the so-called fonttechnology. The book by Peter Karow covers the whole area of it. It offers various chapters about (among others) issues like intelligent font scaling, kerning, quality of type, legibility, and problems of different output devices. It is interesting to read about Gutenberg setting, the font market, optical scaling, and last but not least a "hand on" Kanjhi, the Chinese/Japanese Glyphs. Furthermore, Fonttechnology contains a number of valuable and instructive appendices. Almost everything one has to know about type and computers!
Precision Type Font Reference Guide
Typography is one of the most important graphic elements in any document. This guide contains the widest variety of font software available from leading developers--Adobe Systems, Agfa, Bitstream, Letraset, Linotype, Monotype, and many others. There is also a comprehensive index, which lists each font by name with its type foundries.
Roald Amundsen
ROALD AMUNDSEN (1872-1928), a Norwegian polar explorer and national hero. The first man to find and sail through the North-West Passage, and the first to set foot on the South Pole. NORWEGIAN HERITAGE is a series of books about our most important and best-known national icons. The respective titles introduce major personalities from the worlds of art and literature, science and sports, but also the many natural wonders of the country, as well as significant historical periods and cultural expressions. Each book offers an updated introduction to readers who wish to familiarize themselves with a given subject.
The Viking Age
THE VIKING AGE (ca 800-1050), generic term for a period when traders, warriors, emigrants and discoverers from southern Scandinavia spread to the coasts of England and France, through Eastern Europe to Constantinople, and westwards to Iceland, Greenland and North America. NORWEGIAN HERITAGE is a series of books about our most important and best-known national icons. The respective titles introduce major personalities from the worlds of art and literature, science and sports, but also the many natural wonders of the country, as well as significant historical periods and cultural expressions. Each book offers an updated introduction to readers who wish to familiarize themselves with a given subject.
Kampen
Norman Mailers klassiske reportasjebok fra «The Rumble in the Jungle» – århundrets boksekamp – er regnet som tidenes beste idrettsbok. Begivenhetene utspiller seg i Kinshasa, hovedstaden i Zaire. Datoen er 30. oktober 1974. I det ene hjørnet står den regjerende verdensmesteren i tungvekt George Foreman, fryktet for sin enorme slagstyrke. I det andre hjørnet står Muhammad Ali, bokseren som ble fratatt mestertittelen uten å ha tapt en eneste kamp. Norman Mailer dekker verdensbegivenheten for Playboy Magazine. Han går tett på begivenhetene og beskriver den intense stemningen før og under kampen. Kampen er et mesterlig innblikk i historiens største sportsbegivenhet, en knock-out av en bok!
