Logo Font & Lettering Bible: A Comprehensive Guide to the Design, Construction and Usage of Alphabets and Symbols

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Summary: Cabarga puts a little excitement into letterform design!
Review: Typography doesn't have to be a dull subject. Finally, here is a book that proves that it isn't, it isn't at all.

From the fine writer of two must-have color books [The Designer's Guide to Color Combinations and Designer's Guide to Global Color Combinations], Leslie Cabarga's "Logo, Font & Lettering Bible" is likely the best book out there on letterform design and use.

Cabarga engages the reader with his fun, witty, easy-to-read writing style, uses rich visual detail [and superb layout] to explain what you need to know about creating and using type in design.

If you are a new, or even an advanced user of Illustrator, he offers great instructions, insight and step-by-step drawings about using the program to change the look and feel of your fonts. This also may be the first book of its kind to go into such detail on using Fontographer to create new typefaces.

This is a fine book that can be both read for pleasure [yes, I said pleasure] and used as a guide in developing and polishing type and logo building skills. I believe a book like this will get a lot of use. It's a good one!