A facsimile of a letter from calligrapher, typographer, theoretician, and author, Jan van Krimpen, to Paul Hofer, Curator of the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts at Houghton Library, on certain problems connected with the mechanical cutting of punches.

"Amusing Alphabet Mazes" makes typography puzzling with 80 mazes in a variety of shapes and display styles, all constructed with letters of the alphabet. The mazes range from fairly easy to moderately difficult and are appropriate for both older children and adults. All mazes are classic mazes with an entry and one path to the exit and over 20 of them are created using tessellation patterns of letters. Solutions are provide at the end of the book. (This book is not meant for pre-school or Kindergarten children trying to learn their ABCs. If you are looking for that type of book, consider the author's "Easy Alphabet Mazes." "Tessellating Alphabet Mazes for Kids" is slightly more difficult and also for children. Two other maze books based on letters that are meant for adults are the author's "Puzzling Typography" and "Puzzling Typography A Sequel.")

1,685 bizarre and ornamental letters, including 50 full alphabets in varied motifs.

Those employed by small businesses and nonprofits often wear many hats - and some fit better than others. Graphics may be one of those ill-fitting hats. If it is, this handbook will help you decide which tasks to take on, and which to outsource. You'll learn the advantages and disadvantages of digital and traditional printing. You'll also learn how to plan your marketing budget, cut printing costs, and avoid costly mistakes. Learn to answer these important questions - What is graphic design and what do I need to know about it? How do I establish an identity, or brand, for my small nonprofit or business? What do I need to know about typography? What graphic file formats provide the best web usability and printed results? How can I make a dull image look better? What prepress issues may arise that I need to know about? Can I use inexpensive software and still get good results? What do I need to ask to get good results from my designer or printer? Contains illustrations, bibliography and glossary.

This comprehensive resource for graphic designers will help you merge traditional print design skills with new technology to create imaginative, informative, and useful online experiences for clients and ultimately the end users. "The Graphic Designer's Electronic-Media Manual" focuses on reigning in the specific skills and tools necessary for creating design projects for the web and beyond. You'll also find a rich collection of sound design examples for the web from studios around the world. Unlike other books on web and electronic media, this book is not a technical manual, but a visual resource packed with real-world examples of design for the web.

Web Typography uses a foundation of typographic terminology and graphic design rules to approach the ever-changing question of effective modern website design. It uses monographs and detailed examples to communicate subtle points of aesthetic, and does so in programming languages and idioms familiar to the readership.

InDesign is now regarded as the industry standard in desktop publishing and is very widely used by publishing professionals and non-specialists alike. Many users have a pressing need for automation of their workflows but have been reluctant to get started because of the lack of a simple internal mechanism for recording steps, like Photoshop and Illustrator actions. Instead InDesign relies on scripting which, for many InDesign users, may seem a little too much like hard work. In fact, InDesign comes with all the tools necessary for creating scripts and scripting is not that difficult-it can even be fun! This book is aimed at the general user and provides an introduction to scripting InDesign, using JavaScript to create simple cross-platform solutions. It also gives a general introduction to XML, DTDs and XSLT, before showing how to automate the importing and exporting of XML data. Learn proactively through step-by-step tutorials on creating JavaScript solutions: the Try it for yourself! approach allows you to see for yourself how scripts are put together. Create scripts that manipulate text and images, build documents automatically and output them as interactive PDFs. Become familiar with the InDesign object model: as you work through the book, you will make repeated use of the essential syntax for manipulating InDesign objects such as document, pages, text frames, graphics and preferences. Create user interfaces to make your scripts more flexible and user-friendly. Rather than just creating scripts which always perform the same steps, you will learn to user ScriptUI to provide users with the ability to make choices that determine what the script will do. Learn how to automate XML import and export and provide an interface which allows the user to filter import by supplying parameter values. Please note that the work files for this book can now be downloaded at the following URL: http: //www.grantgamble.com/downloads/indesigncs5js1.zip

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone

TeX is a sophisticated typesetting system that has been in widespread use since approximately 1980. TeX's originator, Donald Knuth, structured the system so users could add functionality. The TeX Users Group (TUG) was founded in 1980 "for educational and scientific purposes, to provide an organization for those who have an interest in typography and font design, and are users of the TeX typesetting system." This book contains interviews with about 50 people who have been or are active users or developers of TeX and its variations or active in TUG or one of the many local TeX user groups. As such, the book provides something of a history of the evolution of TeX and profiles of the people instrumental in this evolution.

Letters: Building an Alphabet with Art and Attitude by Peter N Liptak (illustrated by Lynn Tsan)

ABC - Do you Dot a D?

An Alphabet Apart In Letters, the art and poetry of the English alphabet comes alive through rhythm and rhyme in philosophically charged verse. Much can be learned about a people by the language they use, but what can be said of the letters of that language? This playful treatise on the English alphabet explores the art and philosophy of some letters as they gained form in one artist's eye and expression in the language of a wondering wordsmith. 26 letters called out for a home and found one in the words of this tiny tome.

The quotable alphabet book: "The Lime Launched the First Attack ""The idea, like a chill, catching... Endlessly in an E etch-a-sketching.""Self reflection in dual direction... What will you find upon inspection?""With sudden laughter, or intense sigh, An L will come to mind awry.""Pure of heart, "we are P," they said.""Self," said S. "What is the correction of my silvery snakelike perfection?""Unbending and unbeatable, uncompromising U led / A revolution to unite alphabet's understanding / For all who would learn, U are outstanding "

About the author Peter N. Liptak lives and writes in Seoul, Korea. As a purveyor of the English language, Peter believes in the power of poetry to teachthe rhythmic beauty and artistry of communication.

What do we read when we read a text? The author's words, of course, but is that all? The prevailing publishing ethic has insisted that typography-the selection and arrangement of type and other visual elements on a page-should be an invisible, silent, and deferential servant to the text it conveys. This book contests that conventional point of view. Looking at texts ranging from the King James Bible to contemporary comic strips, the contributors to Illuminating Letters examine the seldom considered but richly revealing relationships between a text's typography and its literary interpretation. The essays assume no previous typographic knowledge or expertise; instead they invite readers primarily concerned with literary and cultural meanings to turn a more curious eye to the visual and physical forms of a specific text or genre. As the contributors show, closer inspection of those forms can yield fresh insights into the significance of a text's material presentation, leading readers to appreciate better how presentation shapes understandings of the text's meanings and values. The case studies included in the volume amplify its two overarching themes: one set explores the roles of printers and publishers in manipulating, willingly or not, the meaning and reception of texts through typographic choices; the other group examines the efforts of authors to circumvent or subvert such mediation by directly controlling the typographic presentation of their texts. Together these essays demonstrate that choices about type selection and arrangement do indeed help to orchestrate textual meaning. In addition to the editors, contributors include Sarah A. Kelen, Beth McCoy, Steven R. Price, Leon Jackson, and Gene Kannenberg Jr.

Shouldn't your boat's name look as distinctive as your boat?

A well-chosen and well-designed name on a transom or topsides is the finishing touch and creates the ultimate first impression for any boat. Your boat's name is the single most highly visible clue to your nautical interests and sensibilities. Whether the name is whimsical ("Y-Knot"), classical ("Terpsichore"), irreverent ("Aquaholic"), mythical ("Valkyrie"), sly ("For Sail"), romantic ("Wayfarer"), or full of attitude ("Bite Me"), it won't communicate your message without an effective design. Choose the lettering and graphic style that best expresses your boating aspirations and personality. Communicate your choices to a letterer, vinyl lettering shop, or a designer. Browse 1,500 boat names and explore resources for expanded research. Take a visual tour through the history of boat naming and across a seascape of boat transoms and topsides. Work with hand-painted, gold-leaf, vinyl or lighted display lettering.

This book reviews the circumstances that led to what Paul Renner called "the inflation of historicism," places his response to that problem in the context of the Weimar Republic, details how the German attributes with which he began the project were displaced from the typeface that emerged in 1927, demonstrates that Futura belongs to a new category of serif-less roman fonts rooted in Arts and Crafts lettering, and considers why the specifically German aspects of the project have gone unrecognized for over seventy years. Renner's writing is compared to ideas prevalent in early twentieth-century German cultural discourse, and Futura's design process is placed in the context of Renner's personal experience of Weimar's social and economic crises. Objective measurements are employed to establish the relationship between drawings attributed to Renner and are used to compare features of Futura with other fonts of the period.

First published in 1978, Typography: Design and Practice is now established as a landmark introduction to working with text. Although writing at the dawn of computerized typesetting, Lewis's basic principles and design advice still stand strong. This remastered edition provides both an overview of the history of typeface design and an easy-to-understand grounding in the practice of choosing fonts and laying out of text. Essential reading for graphic designers, typographers and anyone with an interest in the printed page.

Typography is no longer the specialist domain of the typesetter: these days anyone who uses a computer has access to a wide range of typefaces and effects. This book offers an introduction to the basics of typography, including choosing which typeface to use; adjusting letter-, line-, and word-spacing for improved legibility; understanding kerning and leading; and mastering typographic details, such as italics, punctuation, and line endings. The book is illustrated throughout with practical examples demonstrating good and bad solutions. There are tips for specific design tasks, such as letters, charts, tables, and design for the screen, and a glossary explaining typographic terms.

This title draws together the development of type and type design from its inception, alongside the technical advances of printing.

This is a comprehensive guide to creating and using digital type, both in print and for the Web. An introduction offers a brief history and discusses font classification and software. Step-by-step explanations are provided for creating a wide range of type effects: drop shadow, wood block style, bevel, gradient, fading type, type on curves, perforated type, and many more. Designing type for the screen presents a new set of challenges, including editable HTML, type as image and how to choose fonts, type size and colour. A chapter on creating your own fonts discusses how to get the most out of industry standard software - Fontographer, Scan Font and Font Studio - and describes how to build up letterforms and refine them in Photoshop or Illustrator. Numerous creative approaches to font design discussed here include: amending existing typefaces, combining typefaces and creating fonts out of found objects.

Attractive sourcebook of copyright-free, immediately usable typefaces recalls old-fashioned print styles found on posters and broadsides. Includes eerie Monster Outline, Raindrops and Wilcox Initials; the glamorous Diamond Inlay, Startime, Golden Era and much more. Varied sizes; mostly tall, fat and bold shapes.