Full Description
This volume reflects the developments in the rapidly-changing field of typography for computer interface design. Presented as a series of integrated case studies and interviews, the book covers: the skills needed for quality website design; the impact of computers upon publishing and coroprate design; the use of computers within the educational field; the progress of child-orientated typefaces; and issues in screen layout when designing educational and training software.
Contents
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