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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.
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COMPUTERS AND TYPOGRAPHY 2 2· COMPUTERS AND TYPOGRAPHY 2 Cover of Ellington type specimen, designed by Michael Harvey (Monotype 1990). COMPUTERS AND TYPOGRAPHY 2 Edited by Rosemary Sassoon 4· COMPUTERS AND TYPOGRAPHY 2 First Published in Hardback in 2002 in Great Britain by Intellect Books, PO Box 862, Bristol BS99 1DE, UK First Published in USA in 2002 by Intellect Books, ISBS, 5804 N.E. Hassalo St, Portland, Oregon 97213-3644, USA Copyright ©2002 Intellect Ltd All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission. Consulting Editor Book Design Copy Editor Cover Design Masoud Yazdani Pardoe Blacker Publishing Limited Peter Young Pardoe Blacker Publishing Limited A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Electronic ISBN 1-84150-812-8 / Hardback ISBN 1-84150-049-6 Printed and bound in Great Britain by Cromwell Press, Wiltshire Contents Introduction PART 1 7 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 typesetting 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 DAVID LEVY 75 6· COMPUTERS AND TYPOGRAPHY 2 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 ROSEMARY SASSOON ·7 Introduction This book is intended as a companion volume to the original Computers and Typography, but in no way supercedes it. The first book discussed many of the traditional typographic guidelines, and related them to modern technology. It recognised that this knowledge had not been part of the training or experience of the earlier generation of computer programmers and software designers, and that the importance of such issues was still not fully appreciated. The following words appeared recently in the publicity for an exhibiton of the work of Sumner Stone, the American calligrapher turned computer type designer: ‘As the keyboard becomes a more familiar tool than pen or pencil, and the ancient bond between handwritten letterforms and the type used by printers seems about to vanish, what will determine the standards of legibility, clar