Typefaces for Desktop Publishing: A User Guide

By Alison Black

Examining procedures for choosing typefaces, this book is aimed towards users who come to desktop publishing with little or no experience in typography as well as experienced graphic designers who have to learn new rules about what is possible and effective.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1854548417
• ISBN13: 9781854548412
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Phaidon Inc Ltd
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.8" x 0.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A marvelous exposition of practical typography

This wonderful book explains how you can use type to help your documents communicate better. It gets into all of the nitty-gritty you expect from a book about typography, but does so without going too far into the tall weeds for someone who doesn't set type for a living.In my work as a technical writer, I have used this book to make my publications much more readable. The author shows how typefaces, the space between lines, the length of lines, the space between paragraphs, and so on all contribute to text legibility.