Layout essentials : 100 design principles for using grids /

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This text outlines and demonstrates basic layout/grid guidelines and rules through 100 entries including choosing the right typeface for a project, striving for rhythm and balance with type, combining typefaces, using special characters, and kerning and legibility.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Tondreau, Beth
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Beverly, Mass. : Rockport Publishers, ©2008.
Subjects:
Grids (Typographic design)
Layout (Printing)
Graphic design (Typography)
Dummies (Bookselling)
Graphic arts.
Gabarits (Arts graphiques)
Maquettes (Industries graphiques)
Arts graphiques.
grids (layout features)
dummies (printed matter)
graphic design.
graphic arts.
DESIGN > Graphic Arts > Typography.
Graphic arts
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Getting Started
  • Elements of a Grid
  • Basic Grid Diagrams
  • Determine the Appropriate Grid
  • Formatting Text
  • Hierarchy of Information
  • Grid and Image
  • Combining Grid, Type, and Image
  • Color
  • Space
  • Rhythm and Flow
  • Working Grids
  • Single column
  • Two column
  • Three column
  • Multicolumn
  • Modular
  • Tables and Charts
  • Color as a Dominant Element
  • Color as Organizing Principle
  • Horizontal Hierarchy
  • When Type Forms the Grid
  • Filled and FunctionalSpacious but Not Barren
  • Seemingly Gridless
  • Organic Shapes
  • Swiss Grid
  • Grid, Interrupted
  • Grid, Reconstructed
  • Layered Grid
  • Grids and Motion
  • Breaking the Rules
  • Glossary
  • Recommended Reading
  • Contributors
  • Quick Start Guide
  • Acknowledgments

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