Type Companion for the Digital Artist

by Ellenn Behovian, Against The Clock

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The Against the Clock Companion Series was designed to work together with application-specific training and skills development books. The books in the series provide background in fundamental design and artistic issues and complement the hands-on, skills-based approach of the Against the Clock applications titles. Courses can be found in Office Information Systems, Computer Science, and Fine Arts Departments, as well as Continuing Education, Journalism, and Printing and Lithography.

The Typography Companion for the Digital Artist is an in-depth study of type and typography, and is a superb complement to any application-specific book that includes the use of typographic elements. Whether you're learning a page layout program, a drawing program, a video editing tool, or an imaging program, this book will have the you using fonts and type more effectively and attractively then ever before. From the history of modern typefaces, through the attributes of type, categories of font families, and critical design choices, the Typography Companion for the Digital Artist will help you improve how documents look, their readability and balance of type elements, and offer insight into subtle usage issues often overlooked by the digital artist.

  • ISBN10 0130409936
  • ISBN13 9780130409935
  • Publish Date 20 September 2002
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 20 March 2009
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Pearson
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 192
  • Language English