Design with Type

by Carl Dair

Book Overview

Takes the reader through a study of typography that starts with the individual letter and proceeds through the word, the line, and the mass of text along with their application to the typography of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802065198
• ISBN13: 9780802065193
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Great Book

Unlike other books I have come across, this title is worthy of being on the shelf. More visual examples could have been shown but I say this because I enjoy looking at pictures. The text in this book is definately valuable. $25 is a fair price I'd say.

An invaluable tool

There's a reason why Carl Dair's book has been continuously in print since it was first published in the '50s. It's one of the best introductions to the idea of contrast in design: contrast of size, contrast of weight, contrast of position, and so on. And it's visually inspiring itself, despite being a small, square, one- and two-color volume. Recent printings have unpleasantly tight bindings, but it's still a classic, and one of the best available tools for typographic design.

Nice introduction to type use

For some reason Canada seems to produce spectacular typographic writers. I'd never read this book before, but encountering it for CDN5.00 a few years back, I figured I may as well pick it up. Good decision. It's a very well-written book indeed.