Book typography /
"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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Castle, Del. : London :
Oak Knoll Press ; British Library,
2005.
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| Summary: | "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 niceties of dashes, treatment of quoted passages, folios and running heads, are studied with reference to renowned authorities, including the Cambridge and Oxford styles. The famous Monotype and Linotype book faces are surveyed in their historical contexts with remarks on the qualities of the current digital versions of them."--Jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | 160 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-152) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1584561572 9781584561576 0712306935 9780712306935 |