Type & Color: How to Design and Use Multicolored Typefaces

Mark van Wageningen

Hardcover | 21.97 x 2.29 x 26.92 cm | 176 pp

Princeton Architectural Press | 2019 | 9781616898465

To create his award-winning multicoloured typefaces, Mark van Wageningen first returned to the past for his research: wood-type printing. His subsequent form and colour studies led to a series of popular digital typefaces and awards for typographic excellence from the Type Directors Club.

In Type and Color, the pioneering typographic designer provides all the tools you will need to participate in the hottest typography trend: designing with multicoloured fonts. This manual, aimed at a broad spectrum of graphic design professionals, offers analyses of chromatic type specimens, instructions for multilayer type design, and applications across a range of print and digital media. From display fonts to running text, discover how colour can give words expressive new possibilities.