Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works, 2/e (Paperback)

An updated new edition of the classic guide to typography.

A unique, entertaining, and educational tour through the most basic unit of human communication: type. This book, a perennial seller since 1993, draws in the reader with its beautiful design and layout, making liberal use of more than 200 illustrations and photographs. The author explains in everyday layman's terms what type is and how you can use it to enhance legibility, meaning, and aesthetic enjoyment. This edition is revised and updated to include new chapters on Web typography and other forms of online text display.

Table of Contents

1. Type Is Everywhere.
2. What Is Type?
3. Looking at Type.
4. Type with a Purpose.
5. Type Builds Character.
6. Types of Type.
7. How It Works.
8. Putting It to Work.
9. There Is No Bad Type.
10. Final Form.