Fonts & Logos: Font Analysis, Logotype Design, Typography, Type Comparison [Hardcover]

Doyald Young (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 385 pages
• Publisher: Delphi Pub; First Edition edition (1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0967331609
• ISBN-13: 978-0967331607
• Product Dimensions: 12.1 x 9.1 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #167,909 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Required reading for designers and design students, February 26, 2001

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Roger C. Parker (Dover, NH) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fonts & Logos: Font Analysis, Logotype Design, Typography, Type Comparison (Hardcover)

Fonts & Logos is required reading for any student or designer, whether newcomer or experienced, who needs to develop a logo for assignment, client or boss. Fonts & Logos is a major achievement, a 5 pound, 385-page, 9 by 12-inch labor of love. Fonts & Logos offers a book length equivalent of a yearlong college-level class delivered by one of the world's leading logo designers.

Fonts & Logos describes, and in large, annotated illustrations shows, the process by which the characters (or glyphs) of an ordinary alphabet are converted into an attractive, memorable logotype representing a firm's image. One of the book's strengths is the way it not only shows the original alphabet as well as the final logo, but it also shows rejected alternatives and describes some of the reasons the alternatives were rejected or didn't work as well as the final choice. There's magic in comparing a "straight" alphabet with the resulting logo as well as understanding the subtle changes that often transform everyday characters into memorable logos.

In addition to learning by "looking over the shoulder" of an experienced logo designer, Fonts & Logos will enhance the reader's knowledge of, and appreciation for, the subtleties of type design. Large specimens (enlargements of characters often four inches tall) reveal the subtleties that separate one typeface design from another and the craftsmanship that type designers engage in to create attractive, easy-to-read typeface designs. At large size, the details of the typefaces and resulting logos emerge with power and strength....

For the price of one or two "everyday" (i.e. discardable) books, students and designers can invest in a finely-produced book they will likely keep forever.If you're serious about your design career, make this your "investment of the week."

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent, April 7, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Fonts & Logos: Font Analysis, Logotype Design, Typography, Type Comparison (Hardcover)

Great book. Required reading for any aspiring [type] designer. We covered about half of the content in this book in a quarter of type design using handouts but the book provides a more exhaustive coverage. It is a tremendous resource for designing type, type families, and includes a great sampling of 20 or so sans, serif, and script faces.