This highly visual introduction to all things typographic unravels the story of the fonts that we encounter every day. It opens with an A-Z of a range of significant fonts, chosen to represent the typographic spectrum. As well as looking at each font's historical context and design ethos, a pangram will showcase the entire alphabetic range of each font, as well as relaying a pithy message about the font's history, purpose or use. A chapter on Anatomy will deconstruct the letters of the English alphabet to reveal the anatomical structure of the letterforms, explaining terms such as bowl, crossbar, finial, ligature and spur. An examination of the typographer's toolkit explains how type can be manipulated and arranged on the page to create an arresting design. The final chapter examines the myriad signs, symbols and punctuation marks that litter the printed page, created to endow printed text with additional meaning and nuance.

About the Author
Karen Wilks is a Sussex-based designer whose client list includes leading companies, public bodies and publishers. She started her career working for a number of leading design consultancies, including Carroll & Dempsey and The Partners. She went on to create her own client list, which includes: AVA, Debrett's, Laurence King, Thames & Hudson, the Royal Mail and Imperial War Museum. Liz Wyse is a writer, editor and project manager, who specialises in illustrated reference books. Her clients include Viking Penguin, Houghton Mifflin, Cambridge University Press, Laurence King, Macmillan, Oxford University Press, Guinness Publishing, Reader's Digest, Debrett's. She has recently co-written The Sherlock Holmes Book (Dorling Kindersley) and Going Once (Christie's/Phaidon).


Book Information
ISBN 9781910787922
Author Karen Wilks
Format Hardback
Page Count 272
Imprint Unicorn Press Ltd
Publisher Unicorn Publishing Group