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Computers and Typography

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Rosemary Sassoon alerts those involved in computer interface design that the skills of layout, spacing and typeface are equally vital in the construction of onscreen layouts as they are on the prin...
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Price: £28.95
Pages: 200
Publisher: Intellect Books
Imprint: Intellect Books
Publication Date: 02 February 2013
ISBN: 9781841500492
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:

COMPUTERS / General, Computer science, Typography and lettering

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Introduction...

PART I

ISSUES INVOLVED IN THE DESIGN OF WEB SITES 

How to arrange text on web pages...10 

GUNNLAUGUR SE BRIEM 

Computer screens are not like paper: typography on the web...21 

ARI DAVIDOW

 

PART 2 

NON-LATIN TYPOGRAPHY 

Non-Latin typsetting in the digital age...42 

FIONA ROSS 

English, Japanese and the computer...54 

EIICHI KONO

 

PART 3 

CHANGES IN WORK PRACTICES 

Book design...69 

IAN MACKENZIE-KERR

Slouching toward cyberspace: the place of the lettering arts in a digital era...75 

DAVID LEVY 

Changes in the relationship between printer and designer: craft before, during and after graphic design...81

DAVID JURY 

 

PART 4 

LETTERFORMS AND THE COMPUTER 

Hand, eye and mind: a design trinity...91

MICHAEL HARVEY 

Metafont in the Rockies: the Colorado typemaking project...98

RICHARD SOUTHALL 

 

PART 5 

TYPOGRAPHY AND EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE 

The design of educational software...118 

ROSEMARY SASSOON 

Learning by design: the role of design in facilitating learning...132 

ROGER DICKINSON 

 

Epilogue...148

Index...149