The long awaited translation of this excellent book in which the renowned Dutch type designer Gerard Unger distills decades of design experience into playful, accessible text that reflects the range of his professional projects, from designing the fonts read daily by millions in 'USA Today' and several Dutch daily newspapers to being responsible for the look of the highway and metro signs in the Netherlands.
This book is about everything that happens while you are reading-in front of your eyes and inside your head- and about what type designers, typographers, and graphic designers bring to the pages to make reading happen.
Gerard Unger teaches as visiting Professor at The University of Reading, UK and has taught at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam. As of September 2006, he is Professor of Typography at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands. Working as a freelance designer since 1975, he has designed postage stamps, coins, magazines, newspapers, books, logos, corporate identities, annual reports and many internationally recognized typefaces.

There is also a Dutch edition.