{"product_id":"bloomsbury-handbook-of-global-typography","title":"Bloomsbury Handbook of Global Typography","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis new handbook takes the broadest possible view of typography, defining it as ‘design for reading’. It considers all kinds of reading matter and visual communication systems; digital, environmental, printed, and produced by hand.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy offering a rich collection of texts that are genuinely international in authorship and in scope, it seeks to rebalance the Western bias of so many books on the subject. It gives space to new voices and emerging standpoints about the global nature of design, the needs of particular communities of readers, and about the need for inclusivity and historical understanding in design practice and research.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThirty-seven chapters by forty-three contributors show the interdisciplinary range of research in typography today, exemplifying the relationship between history, theory, and practice that is at the heart of the discipline. They feature over 500 illustrations, mostly in colour, and full bibliographic references.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTopics include:\u003cbr\u003e Typography and sociolinguistics\u003cbr\u003e Frameworks for considering scripts and multilingual documents\u003cbr\u003e Historical and contemporary Arabic-script typographic practice\u003cbr\u003e Designing fonts for marginalized communities in Asia, Africa, and North America\u003cbr\u003e The earliest movable type in China in the tenth century\u003cbr\u003e Understanding Japanese and Korean typography\u003cbr\u003e Approaches to legibility\u003cbr\u003e Western influence on the typography of indigenous writing systems\u003cbr\u003e Political and technological factors that shape typography\u003cbr\u003e Experimental and commercial publishing contexts\u003cbr\u003e The type design industry today\u003cbr\u003e Typography in the environment\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56151197811032,"sku":"9781350336384","price":142.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781350336384.jpg?v=1781013675","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/bloomsbury-handbook-of-global-typography","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}