Typography Pocket Essentials

Typography is the most ubiquitous of the graphic arts. This book offers an overview of the history of the art, before going on to introduce the key principles and techniques of effective typography. It is suitable for anyone who can master the basic principles of type layout and create pages that are easy on the eye and captivate the reader.

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Typography is the most ubiquitous of the graphic arts, with all of us now having access to innumerable fonts and the typographic tools that can, in the right hands, lift any text from the mundane to the beautiful.
Opening with an overview of the history of the art, Typography Pocket Essentials introduces the key principles and techniques of typography, and presents 200 of the most useful and important fonts, making it a handy primer and essential reference guide all rolled into one.