While writing and alphabets go back thousands of years, the history of typography is a long, rich, and unique one-spanning from the movable type used to set Guttenberg's 42-line Bible in 1455 to today's 21st-century computer-designed typefaces. Type and Typography is the definitive guide for every designer who works with type and layout. Carefully structured and brimming with ...(展开全部)

凯伦 程是美国西雅图市华盛顿大学视觉交流设计项目的副教授，主要教授该大学的字体设计和字体排印学课程。她是一名积极的字体设计实践者，其设计作品早已获得了美国平面设计师协会（AIGA）、ID杂志和美国设计中心的认可。她在ID杂志上出版了《交流艺术》一书。

As one of a graphic designer’s most essential tools, typefaces influence the appearance of visual print materials perhaps more than any other component. This essential book explains the processes behind creating and designing type. Author Karen Cheng discusses issues of structure, optical compensation, and legibility, with special emphasis given to the often overlooked relation...(展开全部)

As one of a graphic designer’s most essential tools, typefaces influence the appearance of visual print materials perhaps more than any other component. This essential book explains the processes behind creating and designing type. Author Karen Cheng discusses issues of structure, optical compensation, and legibility, with special emphasis given to the often overlooked relation...(展开全部)

凯伦 程是美国西雅图市华盛顿大学视觉交流设计项目的副教授，主要教授该大学的字体设计和字体排印学课程。她是一名积极的字体设计实践者，其设计作品早已获得了美国平面设计师协会（AIGA）、ID杂志和美国设计中心的认可。她在ID杂志上出版了《交流艺术》一书。

While writing and alphabets go back thousands of years, the history of typography is a long, rich, and unique one-spanning from the movable type used to set Guttenberg's 42-line Bible in 1455 to today's 21st-century computer-designed typefaces. Type and Typography is the definitive guide for every designer who works with type and layout. Carefully structured and brimming with ...(展开全部)

It is easy to forget in our own day of cheap paperbacks and mega-bookstores that until very recently books were luxury items. Those who could not afford to buy had to borrow, share, obtain secondhand, inherit, or listen to others reading. This book examines how people acquired and read books from the sixteenth century to the present, focusing on the personal relationships betwe...(展开全部)