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Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students (Design Briefs)
by Ellen Lupton
from Princeton Architectural Press

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Fun and interesting
  A fun book to read to learn about how types we're created (author and history).
  Really like it.
  I guess only people in the graphic design world will like this book.
  

• entertaining
  A nice book for bathroom reading, but hardly a desk reference or textbook caliber tome. Look for "Design form and Communication" by Rob Carter for a more thorough source on all things type related. Pick this one up for 10 min refresher reading while you're..killing time.

• A solid book for type - with a twinge of humor
  I like this book a great deal. The next time I have a chance to use this in a class (to teach) I will. There are lots of good examples, the language is clear, and it's not too ethereal or esoteric. I think it's a great introduction to typography and laid out very well.

• Strange, superficial overview of type-related topics
  I love type, but I lack an educated background on its use. I was so looking forward to learning about such details as when to prefer a sans-serif versus a serif in certain situations, how people react to various different families of faces, prescriptions for when to apply different types of layouts, and so forth.
  When I got was a partially complete history lesson on how different types of faces and families evolved, an introduction to grid layouts with very little prescriptive advice, and weirdly, a... more info

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