Typography
Forms and Counterforms
Besides his decades’-long activity as a typographer, Adrian Frutiger has also occupied himself with “free” forms, which now have been comprehensively documented for the first time in this book. In Frutiger’s work the harmonious relationship between form and opposing form, and between black and white, becomes a statement about what humans and the world could [...]
Typographie: A Manual of Design
Typographie: A Manual of Design
Emil Ruder’s Typographie is the timeless textbook from which generations of typographers and graphic designers have learned their fundamentals. Ruder, one of the great twentieth-century typographers, was a pioneer who abandoned the conventional rules of typography, replacing them with new rules that satisfied the requirements of his new typography. Now in its sixth printing, this [...]
Active Literature: Jan Tschichold and New Typography
Active Literature: Jan Tschichold and New Typography
A leading voice of the modernist movement, Jan Tschichold oversaw the redesign of the Penguin and Pelican paperbacks in the late 1940s and devised for them a standardized set of typographic rules. The classical type designs of his late career qualify him as perhaps the first typographic postmodernist. Active Literature, an in-depth study of Tschichold's modernist period, is based on extensive archival research that uncovered a wealth of new photographs of his design work. […]
The New Typography
First published in 1928 in Germany and out of print for many years until this English publication, this text has been recognized as one of the most important statements of modern, twentieth-century typographical design. This curious and fascinating work ranges through theories of social criticism, art history, architecture, and the emerging importance of photography as [...]
The Elements of Typographic Style
The Elements of Typographic Style
This lovely, well-written book is concerned foremost with creating beautiful typography and is essential for professionals who regularly work with typographic designs. Author Robert Bringhurst writes about the following typographical topics: designing with the correct typeface; striving for rhythm, proportion, and harmony; choosing and combining type; designing pages; using section heads, subheads, footnotes, and tables; applying kerning and other type [...]