Typography is not only a communication tool but an artistic vehicle as well. Type: Hot Designers Make Cool Fonts explores how award-winning designers create and use typography employing the computer as a design tool. Whether you want to design your own typeface or adapt an existing one, Type offer indispensable direction and instruction from the best typographers in the business through twelve illustrated case studies. Each section provides biographical information, an examination of recent work, sketches and screen shots, and images illustrating the type in place. Each designer offers an insider's look at the intriguing process of modern type design in his or her own words.