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Summary: Bringhurst's book is wise, concise, and true.
Review: Robert Bringhurst's book must be the first word on typography and deserves to be the last. He writes with a humanist's sensitivity to history, a mathematician's devotion to order and number, and an artist's love of beauty. I cannot imagine a better book.
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Summary: I Second the Nomination
Review: The review above describes the highlights of this book more elegantly than this author could hope to do. One section of the book that I particularly enjoyed was Appendix A which discusses: "Sorts and Characters." It explains the origin and use of all of those funny little characters in your fonts, such as the acute, guillemets, and the glottal stop. Appendix B contains a wonderful glossary of typographical terms. P.S. Buy the hardcover edition. It's a book that won't go out of style and you'll want to keep it.
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Summary: The Definitive Typographer's Bible
Review: Probably the best book on typography. Packed with useful information written in a clear flowing style. If you are involved in type design, typesetting or web page design, then this book should be on your shelf. Even the paper the book is printed on is beautiful quality stuff! ;-)
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Summary: Required reading for every type and design lover
Review: The Elements of Typographic Style sets the standard for what a type book should be. The single best type book on the market, a total joy to look at as it is to read. Offers an unequalled amount of information in a concise, easy-to-read fashion. The offers knowledge and love of his subject comes through every page. I've purchased fifty and seventy dollar type books that don't offer ten per cent of what this book offers.
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Summary: indeed the bible of typography
Review: Hermann Zapf wanted to see this book to become the ``typographer's bible''. And indeed it deserves to be. If you only have time to read one book on this subject, this is it.
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Summary: The best book available on the subject
Review: 'The Elements of Typographic Style' is the best book available on the subject of typography and its appropriate use. It is clearly the result of deep research and great historical knowledge. Despite its very professional approach, it is perfect for those who approach typography for the first time, because of its clear and brilliant style. The new edition adds quite a few interesting points and provides valuable updates on the most recent issues. Excellent
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Summary: Everyone who works with type should own this book.
Review: As beautiful as it is informative, Bringhurst succinctly covers the basics and things that should be basic, but alas seem not to be. His prescriptions are informed both by passion and a marvelous dry wit -- I wouldn't have thought typography had much potential for humor if I hadn't read this book.
The hardcover edition is well worth having -- if you've only seen the paperback first edition then you haven't really seen the book -- and I am salivating at the immenent prospect of at last owning a hardback copy
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Summary: One of the best all around books on typography
Review: If you only read one book on typography, you could do a hell of a lot worse than picking up
this one. The author feels strongly about the subject and while he is in many ways a
proponent of classical typography his advice are applicable to other areas of typographic
design as well. This is not a quick hack book on how to design type or
how to do typographic design with DTP. You need to use your brain here.
Marvelous.
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Summary: Very good book.
Review: Pleasent to view and read.
Highly recommended.
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Summary: Only five stars?
Review: How can I possibly only give this work five stars? Robert Bringhurst's "Elements of Typographic Style" is more than a list of prescriptions. It is a definitive reference which explores the history behind typography, and uses that history to explain in its clear, lucid way why rules exist. Where the antiquated rules have no practical basis, Bringhurst is quick to dispell their necessity - but he neither dismisses them nor rejects them. The visual beauty of this book is apparent upon opening it - it is a model of all it preaches. It addresses ongoing issues of basic formatting and page shaping, but also modern needs such as setting more than one language in one text - including those that read right to left (e.g., Arabic scripts). The simple yet elegant writing style makes reading this work a pleasure in itself. Anyone who deals with type - and this now means most everyone - should read this book; its advice is complementary, or even superior, to a style manual. The Amazon editorial above lays out its sections, and as that shows, the book covers the full breadth of modern typography and page composition. I strongly recommend this book. It is an honour to read it.
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