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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459731503321

Titolo

Type on screen : a guide for designers, developers, writers, and students / / Ellen Lupton, editor ; cover design, Noel Cunningham

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Princeton Architectural Press : , : Maryland Institute College of Art, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-61689-346-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (176 p.)

Collana

Design Briefs : Essential Texts on Design

Disciplina

686.2/2

Soggetti

Graphic design (Typography)

Digital media

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

""Preface""; ""01 Fonts on Screen""; ""Web Fonts: A Short History""; ""Rendering Type on Screen""; ""Type Anatomy and Taxonomy""; ""Heads and Bodies""; ""A Brief Survey of Web Fonts""; ""Google Fonts""; ""Case Study A-Sans""; ""Mutable Typefaces""; ""Case Study: Alphabeta""; ""Case Study: History + Hipster = Hipstory""; ""Case Study: ZXX: Disruptive Typography""; ""In the Classroom: Typeface Design""; ""02 Text on Screen""; ""Choosing a Screen Size""; ""The Grid""; ""Vertical and Horizontal Fields""; ""Responsive Typography""; ""Type Size""; ""Paragraph Blocks""; ""Column Alignment""

""Space Between Lines""""Space Between Characters""; ""Hierarchy""; ""Typographic HTML Tags""; ""Special Characters""; ""In the Classroom: The HTML Poster""; ""03 Digital Publishing""; ""Linear Reading""; ""Selective Reading""; ""The Flow of Content""; ""Orbital Content""; ""Case Study: Works That Work""; ""Write About It""; ""In the Classroom: Experimental Readers""; ""In the Classroom: The Mutant Library""; ""04 Type and Interface""; ""Wireframes""; ""Interaction Elements""; ""Menus""; ""Type as Navigation""; ""Expanding the Vocabulary""; ""Drop Shadows and Gradients""; ""Hide and Reveal""

""Typography and Data Display""""Designing Data Tables""; ""Data Tables: Do's and Don'ts""; ""Case Study: Travel Interfaces""; ""In the



Classroom: Weather Apps""; ""05 Icons and Logotypes""; ""Writing with Pictures""; ""Case Study: Noun Project""; ""Wayfinding for Screen""; ""Icons as Typography""; ""Tutorial: Creating an App Icon""; ""Scalability""; ""Case Study: Imaginary Apps""; ""Icons for Interaction""; ""Case Study: Not So Distant Relatives""; ""Case Study: Logo, Meet Navigation""; ""Tutorial: Drawing Interface Icons""; ""Logotypes""; ""Working with Color""; ""Animated Logotypes""

""Flexible Logotypes""""Generative Logotypes""; ""Scalable Vector Graphics""; ""Case Study: MFA Branding""; ""Case Study: Branding a Metropolis""; ""06 Animation and Code""; ""Basic Animations""; ""Animated Gifs""; ""In the Classroom: Animated Gifs""; ""Storyboarding""; ""Narrative Techniques""; ""Transitions: Getting from A to B""; ""Case Study: Transitions on the Street""; ""Case Study: Logo Transition""; ""Case Study: Pixel Painting Typography""; ""Case Study: Kixel: A Kinetic Alphabet""; ""Type and Code""; ""Processing in Use""; ""Scriptographer in Use""; ""Modifying Code""

""Case Study: Computational Type""""Case Study: Slitscan Type Generator""; ""Case Study: Poster Machine""; ""Case Study: Building an Alphabet with CSS""; ""Case Study: Web Typography for the Lonely""; ""In the Classroom: Processing""; ""Index""