Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students (3rd Edition, Revised and Expanded)
Product ID: 569361010
Buy anything from 5,000+ international stores. One checkout price. No surprise fees. Join 2M+ shoppers on Desertcart.
Desertcart purchases this item on your behalf and handles shipping, customs, and support to Slovakia.
The essential and bestselling guide to typography from beloved design educator Ellen Lupton—revised and expanded to include new and additional voices, examples, and principles, and a wider array of typefaces. " Thinking with Type is to typography what Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time is to physics."— I Love Typography The bestselling Thinking with Type in a revised and expanded third edition: This is the definitive guide to using typography in visual communication. Covering the essentials of typography, this book explores everything from typefaces and type families to kerning and tracking to grids and layout principles. Ellen Lupton provides clear and focused guidance on how letters, words, and paragraphs should be aligned, spaced, ordered, and shaped. Historical and contemporary examples of graphic design show how to learn the rules and how to break them. Critical essays, eye-opening diagrams, helpful exercises, and dozens of examples and illustrations show readers how to be inventive within systems that inform and communicate. Featuring 32 pages of new content, the third edition is revised and refined from cover to cover: More fonts: old fonts, new fonts, weird fonts, libre fonts, Google fonts, Adobe fonts, fonts from independent foundries, and fonts and lettering by women and BIPOC designers Introductions to diverse writing systems , contributed by expert typographers from around the world Demonstrations of basic design principles , such as visual balance, Gestalt grouping, and responsive layout Current approaches to typeface design , including Variable fonts and optical sizes Tips for readability, legibility, and accessibility Stunning reproductions from the Letterform Archive Thinking with Type is the typography book for everyone: designers, writers, editors, students, anyone who works with words on page or screen, and enthusiasts of type and lettering. Readers will also love Ellen Lupton's book Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers . Review: Typography, not me nos - Great book Review: Great type book for beginner designers - Great type book for beginner designers
| Best Sellers Rank | #29,674 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #13 in Typography (Books) #38 in Graphic Design Techniques #87 in Design & Decorative Arts |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 208 Reviews |
T**S
Typography, not me nos
Great book
J**L
Great type book for beginner designers
Great type book for beginner designers
E**Y
Useful even after my college class
I was required to get this for a graphic design class but I actually liked this book and it had a ton of useful information. I would look back to it in the future unlike most textbooks I never use again
A**X
Good
Purchased it for my class at Liberty University. Fast shipping and great service!
P**R
Great book!
I use some of this in my design class. Great reference for those who love type.
T**R
Thoughtful
I’ve enjoyed the 2nd edition, and love the thoughtfulness behind the 3rd edition. The studies of the different languages can get too detailed but it’s informative. A good book for class and to have in your design library!
E**T
A lot of Typography history
I originally got this book for a class in typography for college and it’s been a pretty good read. I’m not really a “in depth history” kinda person but if you want to learn about type and its origins etc. It’s the book for you
A**R
Ellen Lupton is the bees knees!
Ellen Lipton is fantastic! I love her take on design and typography she is so refreshing and thorough the way she explains everything.
C**N
Siempre indispensable este aporte teórico
Excelente libro. Siempre, como diseñador, trabajar con tipografía o basar un diseño no solo en la imagen, sino integrar ésta al conjunto de comunicación. Nunca está de más integrar notas teóricas a nuestra actividad como diseñadores
U**E
Beautiful book, right on message
Learning as much from the words as from how they are arranged. Beautiful book!
A**N
A must have for graphi designers
I started to follow Ellen on Instagram and I literally fall in love with her way to explain things. This book is the cherry on the cake. Thank you Ellen, you are an inspiration for me and, I'm sure, for a huge part of our colleagues too
L**A
Pretty good
Perfect condition thank you 💖
I**K
An essential book for graphic designers and communications people
I have three editions of Lupton’’s essential book and have read them all, and shared the earlier editions with people in the communications and design community. The basic advice and core design principles is the same, but in later editions she adds more examples and typefaces. This should be in the library of every graphic designer.
Trustpilot
1 month ago
2 months ago