Typography: A Life in Letters or A Personal Introduction to the Craft of Typography

Covers the history of our alphabet; rules and guidelines for better typography- anywhere; list of banned fonts; categories of type and type specimens; the background for the machines that gave us all our books, magazines and newspapers; and guidelines for creating your own fonts.

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This book includes:

A history of our alphabet from ancient cave walls, to the invention of printing with metal type to wood, photo, and digital type.
Rules and guidelines for better typography- anywhere. A list of banned fonts. Categories of type and type specimens.
The background for the machines that gave us all our books, magazines and newspapers, and how they still influence us today.
Guidelines for creating your own fonts. Lists of type and printing terms.