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About face : reviving the rules of typography / [David Jury].

Title: About face : reviving the rules of typography / [David Jury].
Author: Jury, David
Publication: Switzerland ; Hove, [England] : RotoVision, c2004.

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Description

159 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 26 cm.

Summary

"This book illustrates and explains the rules of typography and presents examples of work by the world's leading designers who use and considerably extend the rules to create effective, communicative design."--Back cover

Alternative Title

Reviving the rules of typography

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 154-156) and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

1. Classification -- 2. Function -- 3. Standard forms -- 4. Extended forms -- 5. Legibility -- 6. Readability -- 7. Measurement -- 8. Manipulating space -- 9. Manipulating type -- 10. Paper and print -- 11. Electronic writing systems -- 12. Language -- 13. Rhetoric.

ISBN

2880467985

OCLC

56396419
SCSB-11191572

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library