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Computers and Typography 2essays on digital type and screen design Rosemary Sassoon is a distinguished expert on handwriting, and a typographist celebrated for her font set 'Sassoon Prima', which helps young school pupils learn to read and write. Digital versions of her work are illustrated in this, her latest book. It's a collection of essays on the role of digital type in graphic design and education.
A chapter by Rosemary Sassoon on marketing her own digital typefaces will be of interest to professional designers. Of greater importance for most readers however is the excellent checklist of tips on making text readable on screen. The next section deals with the making and shaping of letters, and the design of educational software completes the picture. But for me, the most interesting contribution was the last, in which Roger Dickinson explores the interface between computers and learners - listing the devices and the technological strategies which can make learning more effective. This is a good follow-up to Rosemary Sassoon's first volume of Computers and Typography on topics related to digital type, and it will be of interest to web designers, information architects, and typographers - as well as 'fotaholics' . © Roy Johnson 2002 [other TYPOGRAPHY books] Rosemary Sassoon (ed), Computers and Typography 2, Bristol: Intellect, 2002, pp.158, ISBN 1841500496
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