A Typographic Workbook: A Primer to History, Techniques, and Artistry

Great book that reads a bit like history and a bit like a trivia book. There's a lot of useful information and it thoroughly explains all of the important details of typographic elements. Perfect for design students. Be wary of the quizzes for each chapter though. There's no key to provide the answers in the student edition of the book, and after conferring with my professor we concluded that several of the questions throughout were incorrect or had no answer provided in the text itself.

I am currently using this book as a textbook for online course at local community college and really enjoy the book with comprehensive layout of information, with an wonderful timeline of design history in every chapter, as well as review questions, too! A great book for self-study.Ordered the book late for my class, but it arrived in 2 days and was still able to do the assignment in time! That was a huge relief and saved nearly half the cost of buying it at school.

This book starts with the history of the alphabet until we know it today. Good examples of lettering. Textual reviews of every chapter and helpful appendix.

this book had very useful info that i needed in class. It showed examples and had tons of definitions that i needed to know also.

This book provides just enough in-depth history of letters and type to keep it interesting and not become a history lesson. Wonderful layout, executing examples of the type talked about by using them. Favorite part is the back with hundreds of fonts displayed on a whole page in all forms. They actually tell the story of Alice in Wonderland from start to finish.

This workbook is exactly what I needed for my Typography class. Very happy with this purchase.

Very nice book for the beginner to typography as a basic learning tool to supplement a class (which is how I am using it). Has basic information, exercises and resources for beginning graphic artists, but does not take the place of classroom instruction!

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