Computers and Typography
Computers and Typography (Book)
Volume 2
Rosemary Sassoon alerts those involved in computer interface design that the skills of layout, spacing and typeface are equally vital in the construction of onscreen layouts as they are on the printed page.
Computers and Typography 2 reflects the new developments in this rapid-changing field. It complements, without in any way supplanting, the first book through an extensive elaboration of issues that were considered only briefly in its precursor.
Presented as a series of integrated case studies and interviews, the book includes:
- the skills needed for quality web design
- the impact of computers upon publishing and corporate design
- the use of computers within the educational field
- the progress of child-oriented typefaces, and
- issues in screen layout when designing educational and training software.
The clarity and breadth of each presentation makes this especially valuable for all concerned in education, training, design and typography.
Edition
Introduction...7
PART I
ISSUES INVOLVED IN THE DESIGN OF WEB SITES
How to arrange text on web pages...10
GUNNLAUGUR SE BRIEM
Computer screens are not like paper: typography on the web...21
ARI DAVIDOW
PART 2
NON-LATIN TYPOGRAPHY
Non-Latin typsetting in the digital age...42
FIONA ROSS
English, Japanese and the computer...54
EIICHI KONO
PART 3
CHANGES IN WORK PRACTICES
Book design...69
IAN MACKENZIE-KERR
Slouching toward cyberspace: the place of the lettering arts in a digital era...75
DAVID LEVY
Changes in the relationship between printer and designer: craft before, during and after graphic design...81
DAVID JURY
PART 4
LETTERFORMS AND THE COMPUTER
Hand, eye and mind: a design trinity...91
MICHAEL HARVEY
Metafont in the Rockies: the Colorado typemaking project...98
RICHARD SOUTHALL
PART 5
TYPOGRAPHY AND EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE
The design of educational software...118
ROSEMARY SASSOON
Learning by design: the role of design in facilitating learning...132
ROGER DICKINSON
Epilogue...148
Index...149