Книги по типографике, шрифтах и леттерингу

Hand-drawn lettering has never been more popular, and every home designer is in on the act, creating energetic, quirky fonts that seem to jump off the screen, the poster or the page. To the uninitiated this free design can seem a little intimidating can anyone join in? Can you learn to draw appealing letters without a graphics course?

Draw Your Own Fonts proves that the answer is a resounding ‘yes’. A lively mix of inspiration and workbook, it offers 30 complete alphabets, drawn in a variety of styles by an energetic line-up of young artists and illustrators, with tips and demonstrations on how you can copy or adapt them to make them your own. With sections on how to use your fonts online as well as on paper, this is a do-it-yourself book that will appeal to anyone who has ever begun a hand-lettered project (or simply doodled a highly decorated word or two on the cover of a notebook) then wondered why it didn’t have the panache of professional work.

Free Font Index 3 is an indispensable guide to free fonts and their creators. Over 500 fonts from 26 type foundries have been collected in this book and CD set. In addition to comprehensive type specimens of all fonts, the book includes interviews with 6 type designers: Paul D. Hunt, Underware, Dirk Uhlenbrock (TypeType), Santiago Orozco (Typemade), Dave Crossland and Wojciech Kalinowski.

The fonts on the CD are suitable for both Windows (2000 and later) and Mac (OS X and later) systems; however, many of the fonts can also be used on previous versions of either or both systems. Some of the fonts contain extended character sets, including Central and Eastern European, Cyrillic and/or Greek. All fonts are licensed for personal and commercial use.

This book is suitable for those who work with automated text and image design. It shows examples of working correctly on a conceptual level. Exact directions for using all of the grid systems presented (8 to 32 grid fields) are given to the user. These can be used for the most varied of projects. The three-dimensional grid is treated as well. Put simply: a guidebook from the profession for the profession.

The development of organisational systems in visual communication was the service and the accomplishment of the representatives of simple and functional typography and graphic design. In the 1920s in Europe, works already arose in the areas of typography, graphic design and photography with objectified conception and rigid composition. In 1961 a brief presentation of the grid with text and illustrations appeared for the first time in an earlier book by the author. Articles published mainly in trade journals then followed.

This book now attempts to close a gap by giving examples and exact directions to the professional concerning all grid problems that can occur.

The author, a world-renowned professional, thus offers his colleagues the tools to solve problems more easily.

The beauty and art of creating handwritten letter forms.

Hand to Type is a stunning compilation of hand-made and digital scripts that showcases the beauty of handwritten letterforms. The book features work by some of today’s most successful and original calligraphers and lettering artists. In addition to fonts and lettering using the Latin alphabet, it introduces artists who explore Cyrillic, Arabic, and Greek scripts.

The book’s rich visual examples are complemented by in-depth interviews with outstanding calligraphers and type designers conducted by editor Jan Middendorp. Hand to Type also offers a revealing glimpse into processes by which hand-made letters may be turned into digital files. Prominent guest authors introduce the workings of scripts with which many readers may be less familiar — from Arabic and Indian writing systems to the amazing scripts found in pre-war German schoolbooks and on Amsterdam pub windows.

Hand To Type features interviews with Ken Barber, Timothy Donaldson, Tony Di Spigna, Gemma O’Brien, Luca Barcellona, Niels Shoe Meulmann, Brody Neuenschwander, Gabriel Martínez Meave, and Reza Abedini.

Contributing designers include:

Francesca Biasetton, Alison Carmichael, Allan Daastrup, Louise Fili, Cláudio Gil, Gray 318, Cyrus Highsmith, Brian Jaramillo, Seb Lester, Letman, Gabriel Martínez Meave, Erik Marinovich, Marina Marjina, Laura Meseguer, Greg Papagrigoriou, Alejandro Paul, Stephen Rapp, Ricardo Rousselot, Paul Shaw, Wissam Shawkat, Dana Tanamachi, John Stevens, Underware, and Laura Worthington, among others.

With specialist chapters by:

Nadine Chahine, Rick Cusick, Ramiro Espinoza, Kimya Gandhi and Dan Reynolds, Patrick Griffin, Florian Hardwig, Shoko Mugikura, and Alexei Vanyashin.

Type and font creation are among the most important aspects of graphic design.

Handmade Type Workshop is ideal for anyone looking to move beyond existing typography and fonts to create, explore and use original or customized letterforms.

This is a comprehensive, practical guide to handcrafting creative fonts, packed with tutorials, profiles and inspirational showcases from a range of international contemporary practitioners, including Lisa Congdon, Toshi Tajima, Mathilde Nivet, Tyrone Ohia, Honey Design, Amandine Alessandra and many more.

Taking font creation back to basics, Handmade Type Workshop explores innovative ways to design contemporary lettering of all kinds, examining everything from classic design examples to 3D and illustrated fonts, digital lettering and radical conceptual alphabets.

We are all type consumers and interact with type in our everyday lives. Typefaces in all shapes and sizes evoke an emotional response and trigger associated memories before we’ve even read the words.

How to Draw Type and Influence People shows how we use type to understand different messages. Each typeface is introduced and explained and then creative exercises show the reader how to draw each font and invite them to explore the associations evoked by the styles, to reveal why they have come about and how to create their own versions.

Ideal for all those who work with type daily, this book provides an accessible way into the world of typefaces, for the general reader, but also graphic designers who want to explore fonts in more detail and design their own letterforms.

About the Author:

Sarah Hyndman is a graphic designer, author and public speaker, known for her interest in the psychology of type. Her aim is to change the way we think and talk about typography by demonstrating that it is fun and accessible for everybody. Sarah leads tailored workshops and runs events, and in 2014 she delivered a TEDx talk. She collaborates with the Crossmodal Research Laboratory at the University of Oxford.

This book is a guide to the use of type in design for print and screen. It provides a creative, informative and practical introduction for those studying all pathways of graphic design.

The authors discuss who uses type, where and when type is employed, audience and appropriateness of type and communication. The book includes basic information about type and its terminology, using typefaces, designing and communicating with type, colour and movement, experimentation with type and production issues. Throughout, examples are drawn from design for both print and screen.

How to Use Type includes illustrated activities and case studies linked to key issues discussed in the text. This book offers an invaluable overview of an essential aspect of visual communication.

The sans-serif typeface Franklin Gothic was designed by Morris Fuller Benton in 1902 and continues to be widely used in newspapers, books, billboards and advertisements.

Named in honour of iconic American printer Benjamin Franklin, the impactful, bold typeface has been spun off into a variety of related faces throughout the past century.

In I LOVE TYPE 06 - FRANKLIN GOTHIC, internationally acclaimed designers including Akatre, Cypher13 and Studio Blanco show off their finest creations incorporating the grace and style of Franklin Gothic.

Gill Sans, a sans-serif typeface widely used today, was designed by Eric Gill in 1926; the first public usage of the typeface was that same year, when Gill used it on signage for a new bookshop opening in his hometown of Bristol. I LOVE TYPE 05 - GILL SANS explores the multitude of unexpected ways this popular typeface has been used, subverted and reinvented by a host of clever and inspired designers in recent years.

Among the glories of extant medieval manuscripts are the splendid illuminated initials in which geometric, curvilinear, animal, religious and other motifs intertwine to form extraordinarily beautiful and decorative letters.

For this striking volume, Carol Belanger Grafton has selected 548 illuminated letters-alphabetically arranged-from 19th-century reprints of medieval manuscripts. Here are magnificently ornamented initials-some the length of an entire margin, another encompassing the page itself, others delicate miniatures. All are imaginatively and beautifully enhanced with royal and saintly figures, mythical creatures, knights in battle, exquisite florals and much more.

Encompassing all the letters of the alphabet, and including a selection of hand-colored chromolithographs, this practical archive of lovely copyright-free designs not only provides commercial artists and illustrators with a wealth of usable letters, it offers a splendid sampling of the ancient art of manuscript illuminations.

2000 photos/illustrations

If you’re searching for a font that goes beyond ho-hum, this book is for you. Today’s computers provide a selection of fonts that serve reasonably well for workaday letters and publications, but have become utterly boring from overuse. If you want your project to attract the reader’s attention, you need an original font.

Indie Fonts provides a showcase collection of over 1600 diverse fonts from 19 18 of today’s hottest digital type foundries and features the best work of these designers. Indie Fonts will help readers find some of the highest quality fonts available today.

2000 photos/illustrations

If you seem like your hunger for new fonts is insatiable, then Indie Fonts 2 is the book for you. It is the second installment in Rockport’s Indie Fonts series and brings you even more fonts to choose from. Don’t settle for ordinary fonts when you can capture your reader’s attention with an original font that hasn’t been become overused and boring.

Indie Fonts 2 includes more than 1600 diverse fonts from 19 of today’s hottest digital type foundries and features the best work of these designers. This comprehensive collection helps designers do their jobs even better by providing some of the highest quality fonts available today.

The type styles range from the best of Matthew Carter’s classic designs to the latest irreverence of ingoFonts. Designers searching for unique typefaces will find what they are looking for, whether historical revivals or futuristic techno faces.

2000 color photos/illustrations

If you're searching for a font that goes beyond ho-hum, this book is for you. Today's computers provide a selection of fonts that serve reasonably well for workaday letters and publications, but have become utterly boring from overuse. To attract a reader's attention, you need an original font.

This third volume of Indie Fonts provides a showcase collection of 1,600 new fonts from today's hottest digital type foundries, and features the best work of these designers. As with the first two volumes, Indie Fonts 3 will help readers find some of the highest quality fonts available today.

Type styles range from the best of Matthew Carter's classic designs to the latest irreverence of ingoFonts. Designers searching for unique typefaces will find what they are looking for, whether historical revivals or futuristic techno faces.

On the included CD, you'll also get a collection of 53 bonus fonts.