Type in Use. Effective Typography for Electronic Publishing

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A guide to understanding and designing a publication's essential typographic elements. Organized by application --text, headlines, subheads, captions, etc. --Type in Use describes and illustrates the principles of designing pages with type and shows how the pros do it with carefully selected examples from a wide variety of current publications. It focuses on the standard type categories used in magazines, newsletters, and in-house documents; the principles can be applied to all print and electronic media. A chapter is devoted to the use of type on Web sites.