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Typography Essentials

by Ina Saltz

Typography Essentials is an effort to distill, organize, and compartmentalize but not to oversimplify the many complex issues surrounding the successful and effective use of typography. It is for designers of every medium in which type plays a major or minor role. A deep understanding of letterforms and knowledge of the effective use of letterforms can only be obtained with constant observation and experimentation; it evolves over alifetime of design practice and study. This book is intended to advance the progress of designers seeking to deepen their typographic expertise.

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  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?