Webworks: Typography [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)

by Jason Mills (Author), Daniel Donnelly (Author) "Artistica Magazine ¡s a monthly e-zine that promotes experimental typographers and type faces..." (more)
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Product Description
There's more to type than meets the eye. Just take a surf on the Web. Typeface designers are marketing their fonts on the WorldWide Web, going beyond the limits imposed by print advertising, direct mail marketing or even HTML.

Besides creating outrageous new digital fonts, these typographer are developing new graphic text treatments that don't waste visitors' time with slow downloads for their online catalogs and e-zines. Featuring some of the most imaginative stars on the Web and in the expanding world of type design, experts share their tricks and techniques in this essential sourcebook for creating dazzling typefaces and Websites.

A companion CD-ROM offers royalty-free type, plus links to hundreds of typography related Websites.

About the Author
Web Site Graphics: Typography—A discriminating collection, this array of masterful type-design treatments includes type fonts custom-made for the job, elegant and classic fonts stretching traditional boundaries, and mod and retry type. Learn how to stretch, alter, and successfully use type in place for any web design assignment.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Rockport Publishers (March 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1564965198
• ISBN-13: 978-1564965196
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,656,712 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars fascinating, February 18, 2000

By A Customer

This book is a very visual account of what is on the cutting edge of typography today. Vivid colors and interesting layouts provide readers with a real "feel" for how the typographers use their designs for special effects. The authors of this book had a real eye for the true artists in typography. A great book for people who are interested in designing their own work or for those just looking for new and interesting contributors to this unique field.

6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars mostly uninspired faddish typography., September 23, 1999

By A Customer

This book is filled with typography design that seems to have evolved with no knowledge of the past histoy of typographic design. Some of the comments made by the designers had some value, but the examples of their work didn't always match their jargon.The book is boring, uninspiring and I returned my copy. Save your money. There are better books out there.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A self-indulgent excercise in graphic design., June 23, 2003

By A Customer

I'm relieved that I only checked this book out out from the libraray instead of dropping almost $50 to purchase it. While it purports to discuss typography, it's clear even from the table of contents - and certainly from the body of the book - that "Webworks: Typography" is largely an excercise in graphic design. And even the graphic design fails on its most basic level, that of coherance.

The book is made up of several mini-sections, each one devoted to a different web-available foundry. Six examples of each foundry's typefaces are presented in tiny boxes at the bottoms of the pages. The remaining 95% of the space is devoted to overwrought images and mutilated text relating each foundry's approach to typography.

It's barely comprehensible. Think of the worst example of fast MTV video-editing on paper. That's how this book is designed. There is a predilection for web design here, and clearly this is a book was created by and for young people with very little reverance for text. Judging by the samples in the book, many of these foundries are even trying to turn the letters we use for text into flashy monuments of their creativity. Nevermind the actual words, I guess.

I found two nice foundries in the book, not surprisingly both are situated in Europe, where there appears to be a stronger comprehension of the the concept of text legibility.