Design Work Ni Sugu Yakudatsu Obun Shotai No Rule / Hara Title : Designing Type Gencho Dai2 Han No Honyaku

[Machine Translation] From the history of typefaces and the basics of letter formation to uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, symbols, and spacing, the book provides concrete explanations of each letter, along with more than 400 typeface samples. The book covers all aspects of typefaces, including prototypes, proportions, axes of tilt, the basics of serifs and dots, visual corrections, interrelationships between characters, and the balance between brightness and darkness. Comparing a variety of examples of both classic and modern typefaces, the book introduces everything from basic knowledge to applied techniques that are essential for both creating and using European typefaces.

書体の歴史や文字構成の基本から大文字、小文字、数字、記号、スペーシングまで400点以上の書体サンプルとともに1文字ずつ具体的に解説。書体の原型、プロポーション、傾きの軸、セリフやドットの基本、視覚補正、文字どうしの相互関係、明るさと暗さのバランスなど、あらゆる点を網羅。古典から最新の書体まで、様々な例を比較し欧文書体を創るにも、使うにも知っておきたい基礎知識から応用テクニックまでを紹介します。