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This book examines the essential factors of a well designed book – attractive and suitable type, close spacing of words, reader-friendly format – and considers how maximum-quality typography (of books or of any text intended for continuous reading), consonant with traditional standards, can be achieved by users of present-day technology. Word-division, letter-space, punctuation, different styles of footnotes and endnotes, use of symbols and special characters, the n… More >>
Arts and Design Schools, colleges, and universities have post-secondary, undergraduate, and graduate programs that broaden and develop professional abilities and perspectives in their students. Arts and Design Schools offer certificates and degrees in the many subjects included in the discipline of art. Students can study for associate, bachelor, master, and doctorate degrees in drawing and painting, print making, sculpture, graphic design, fabric design, architecture, interior design, illustration, animation, film, furniture, fashion, and others.
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For designers, non-designers, and desktop publishers. Fine typography is timeless; typesetting technology may change, but there is only so much a good computer program can do. Using type creatively has more to do with aesthetics and common sense than it does with how the type is set, who sets it, or how much it costs. For guidance we can no longer look to the professional typographer for help; we are now the typographers.
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