Swiss Typography

Review of typefaces with examples.

Our all time best selling book is now available in a revised and expanded second edition. Swiss Typography is the definitive guide to using type in visual communication, from the printed page to PC screen.

About The Book

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About The Book

This lovely, well-written book is concerned foremost with creating typography and is essential for professionals who regularly work for clients.

Author writes about 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 adjustments to improve legibility; and adding special characters, including punctuation and diacritical marks.

The Elements of Typographic Style teaches the history of and the artistic and practical perspectives on a variety of type families that are available in Europe and America today.

A few hundred years of type and typography have

established rules that only a fool would ignore.

Reviews

4/5 (16 Reviews)

John Doe

Dallas, Texas

Jean Doe

Tampa, Florida

Jack Doe

Los Angeles, California

Nicolas Adamson

Typographer, Writer, Father...

Good typography is measured by how well it reinforces the meaning of the text, not by some abstract scale of merit.

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