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Pensar con tipos: Una guía clave para estudiantes, diseñadores, editores y escritores
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Pensar con tipos: Una guía clave para estudiantes, diseñadores, editores y escritores

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Este no es un libro sobre fuentes. Es un libro sobre cómo utilizarlas. Este libro trata de pensar con la tipografía. La tipografía es una herramienta con la que podemos dotar al lenguaje de un cuerpo físico, dar una forma concreta al contenido y posibilitar el flujo social de mensajes. Este libro pretende hablar con los lectores y escritores, diseñadores y editores, profesores y estudiantes cuyo trabajo esté relacionado con la impredecible vida de la palabra escrita. Desde la rigidez que imponía el trabajo con los tipos de imprenta físicos, de metal o madera, hasta la flexibilidad que ofrece el medio digital, el texto ha evolucionado desde un cuerpo cerrado y estable hacia un ecosistema fluido y abierto cuyos atributos, grano, color, densidad y silueta, pueden ajustarse de maneras infinitas. Pensar con tipos aborda las cuestiones culturales y teóricas que alimentan el diseño tipográfico.
El libro está dividido en tres secciones: letra, texto y retícula. Partiendo de la unidad básica que es la letra, aborda después las particularidades de la organización de las palabras en cuerpos de texto coherentes y sistemas flexibles. Los proyectos de muestra y los ejercicios prácticos que se incluyen, explican no solo cómo se estructura la tipografía, sino por qué se hace así, con la intención de desvelar las bases funcionales y culturales que residen tras las convenciones del diseño.
Pensar con tipos es un recurso inestimable para todos aquellos que alguna vez han tenido que atravesar el territorio abismal de la página en blanco y se han visto asediados por las preguntas ¿qué tipo usar?, ¿a qué tamaño?, ¿cómo componer, alinear y espaciar todas esas letras, palabras y párrafos? Una guía que nos enseña a movernos con imaginación dentro del conjunto de normas tipográficas y nos orienta sobre cuándo es conveniente romperlas.

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PublisherEditorial GG
Release dateDec 1, 2015
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Pensar con tipos: Una guía clave para estudiantes, diseñadores, editores y escritores
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Ellen Lupton

Ellen Lupton is a designer, writer, and educator. She has written numerous books about graphic design, including Thinking with Type, Graphic Design Thinking, and Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers. She teaches in the Graphic Design MFA program at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore (MICA), where she proudly serves as the Betty Cooke and William O. Steinmetz Design Chair. She is Curator Emerita at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City, where her exhibitions included Herbert Bayer: Bauhaus Master and The Senses: Design Beyond Vision. Lupton loves reading, writing, teaching, and learning new things about design.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Informative. In depth.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    I've read many, many books on typography and I still learned new things from this one. The section on individual letters is very strong, including information on the parts of a letter and on the history of typefaces, with more information on 20th century typefaces than I've seen in comparable reference works.
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    4/5
    Superb introduction to the basics of type, typography and layout.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    Not terribly in-depth, but a good introduction to the concepts of page design (whether paper or web) and typography. Most of which I knew but this is nicely condensed with some examples scattered along the way. I would recommend it to people getting into typography or design, proabably too simple for someone with experience but a good primer.
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    Beautifully written and typeset. I thought reading about type would be boring. Not in this book.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
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    Good, but just not what I expected. Has explanations and discussion between examples, sharing ideas on letterform, text, and use of grid. Includes history and good points on computer and web-based usage. But I found I like other type books better (i.e. Carl Dair's 'Design With Type')
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    Graphic design is an important help to any venture. In the age of electronic communication, it has become only more important to capture the public’s attention. Distractions abound, but well-thought visuals stand the chance of garnering a glance. Of course, only deeper substance will sustain interest in a written work, but interest will never be piqued without visual appeal. Lupton’s work seeks to enlighten those who deal with type in some format about the graphical principles required to display those words pleasingly.Lupton divides her book into three main sections: Letter, Text, and Grid. Letter covers typefaces and fonts; Text covers practices about forming words into sentences; and Grid covers how to lay them out on a page or screen. The book primarily examines the medium of print, but communication via computers frequently receives mention. Further, many of the concepts of graphical appeal can be translated to this increasingly common mew medium. (Some readers might also benefit from Lupton’s Type on Screen, but this work is the more important seminal work.) Like any graphical design book, frequent use of example images litter the book throughout. Every caption not only cites a source but also informs the reader of its worth.As the subtitle suggests, multiple potential audiences exist for this classic. Pure graphic designers provide an obvious one, but writers, editors, students, and even web developers (like myself) can benefit from perusing Lupton’s pages. After reading this, I immediately changed a graphic or two in my software’s code. It’s hard not to get thinking creatively about how type is presented after reading this work, both through well-explicated ideas and copious inspirational examples. Reading it is time well spent.