Alphabook: Typeface Design & Application [Hardcover]

Roger Walton (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1999

Alphabook brings together new type design for both text and display faces with work that demonstrates the unique characteristics of each typeface shown. It shows the weights and cuts of each face with ideas on design.'

Product Details

• Hardcover: 183 pages
• Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns; First Edition edition (May 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0688168515
• ISBN-13: 978-0688168513
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.5 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,317,307 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Pretty, but no information., December 1, 1999

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A. Cinque Hicks - See all my reviews

This review is from: Alphabook: Typeface Design & Application (Hardcover)

I bought Alphabook: Typeface Design and Application, thinking it would be a book about, well, typeface design and application. It's not. Instead, it's just another pretty picture book of all the funky, cool, too-hip-for-words typefaces being designed right now. Just one page after the next obviously designed to make you say, "ooh! ahh!" with every oh-so-funky layout. Good to have as a catalog, but offers *zero* insight on actual design.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars More selection, please! :-), July 12, 2001

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Claudio Piccinini (Modena Italy) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Alphabook: Typeface Design & Application (Hardcover)

Alphabook is one of the many books supposedly showcasing recent innovative and original type designs, alongside with graphic images where the types are used and information for each typeface and its author. Although it's far better than many books of this kind, the selection of typefaces mixes really interesting and groundbreaking types with absurdly banal ones. However it's surely a book worth having, one of the view that provide (albeit) little information on the type designers and has some gems into it.

5.0 out of 5 stars Inspirering and rich, May 23, 2001

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Michael Chang Winterberg (Denmark) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Alphabook: Typeface Design & Application (Hardcover)

AlphaBook may not be a HOW TO DO IT book on type design, which would be a bit boring, due to the variety of type design directions. AlphaBook sure as hell shows, that you can take graphic design to another level with typography. It's a cutting edge showcase, showing what creatives are can create with type. AlphaBook inspire, amaze, raise questions, shows new ways of thinking and challenges you to do your own experiments with type design. I owe it and I'm proud to be represented in it aswell.