Catalogue of the Book ”The Use Of Type”

In the book called ”The Use Of Type”, There are 16 chapters starting with an introduction in order to tell people a rough idea what is this book talking about. After that, it tells about using the different style of types as skills to represent different theme or mood. It then tells more about the organisation and composition of how to place the words in the best way and also the bookwork. In the forth chapter, it starts talking about the initial letters, rules, fleuron and swash letter including showing different examples. Next, the book has turned into some specialise case, which talking about the use of type in advertising, talking about the advertising agency, symmetry or asymmetry and the three parts of an advertisement. What is more, it then talks about the layout and the equipment that is needed for creating a type. Also, Colour is mentioned for the next chapter because different colours have different expressions. On the other hand, paper and presswork is also be described in the book telling people that the original method of the way how a piece of paper or a book can be produced. After this, it definite the term of ‘Casting-off’ and the purpose of creating type. The rest of the chapter would be the bibliography, glossary and index which are the extra information of the book.

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