The elements of typographic style

Robert Bringhurst

Hartley & Marks, Publishers, 2004 - Design - 382 pages

Renowned typographer and poet Robert Bringhurst brings clarity to the art of typography with this masterful style guide. Combining the practical, theoretical, and historical, this edition is completely updated, with a thorough exploration of the newest innovations in intelligent font technology, and is a must-have for graphic artists, editors, or anyone working with the printed page using digital or traditional methods.

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User Review  - jasonli - LibraryThing

"The Elements of Typographic Style" is a compact yet erudite handbook on typography and graphic design. Assuming little to no knowledge of typography, Bringhurst walks the reader through various ...

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Fascinating. Quite a lot to digest, especially for the amateur typographer, and doubly so for one working purely in reflowable digital text. Everyone I've mentioned this book to has assumed it to be ...

Contents

• Foreword: 9
• The Grand Design: 17
• Rhythm Proportion: 25

About the author

Robert Bringhurst was born October 16, 1946, in the ghetto of South Central Los Angeles and raised in the mountain and desert country of Alberta, Montana, Utah, Wyoming and British Columbia. He spent ten years as an undergraduate, studying physics, architecture and linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, philosophy and oriental languages at the University of Utah, and comparative literature at Indiana University, which gave him a Bachelor of Arts in 1973. He had published two books of poems before entering the writing program at the University of British Columbia, which awarded him an MFA in 1975. From 1977 to 1980 he taught writing and English literature at UBC, and after that, made his living as a typographer. He has also been poet-in-residence and writer-in-residence at several universities in North America and Europe. His book, The Elements of Typographic Style is considered a standard text in its field, and Black Canoe is one of the classics in the field of Native American art history. He received the Macmillan Prize for Poetry in 1975.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The elements of typographic style
• Author: Robert Bringhurst
• Edition: 3, illustrated
• Publisher: Hartley & Marks, Publishers, 2004
• Original from: the University of Virginia
• Digitized: Sep 10, 2008
• ISBN: 0881792063, 9780881792065
• Length: 382 pages
• Subjects: Art / Typography; Book design; Design / Book; Design / Graphic Arts / Typography; Graphic design (Typography); Imprimerie; Layout (Printing); Livres; Printing; Printing Specimens; Type and type-founding