Type Tricks: Layout Design

Type Tricks: Layout Design is the second release in a trilogy of books concerning typography. In addition, this book also explores layout designs, providing you with a breakdown of the guidelines you should follow in order to improve your website or digital product.

Sofie Beier is a professor at the Royal Danish Academy. Her book brings practical experience when discussing design layouts, along with academic research that showcases how good typography can enhance how much visitors read. 

Discover the best tricks that you can use to improve the words and images within layouts to create a better user experience. Along with, creating a more intuitive and helpful interface for your users or projects. Find more than 200 tips from this guide for creating readable layouts and typography settings.

Instead of memorising the layout guidelines that you need to follow, use this book as your layout design cheatsheet, so you can focus your energy and attention on making the improvements that will make the real differences for your business.

Additionally, make sure to check out part 1 (Type Tricks) and stay tuned for the launch of part 3 (Type Usability) in the book series, so you can become the ultimate typography master!

Author

Sofie Beier is a professor at the Royal Danish Academy, where she is head of the research unit Centre for Visibility Design. In addition to creating the Type Tricks series, she wrote the book Reading Letters: Designing for Legibility (2012) and has published numerous academic papers on typeface legibility. Her research is focused on improving the reading experience by achieving a better understanding of how different typefaces and letter shapes can influence the way we read.

Press

'Sofie Beier strikes again adding a new book to the Type Tricks series.The new edition about Layout Design is as great as the previous edition on Type Design. It covers information from the basic level to more advanced detailed ones, all ina very straight-forward and illustrated manner. It is a great tool for type/typography teachers, a perfect reference for students, and also very insightful to anyone who wants to learn more about the topic'.  Marina Chaccur, Type Design Teacher, Royal Academy of Arts, The Hage.