The revised and expanded third edition of Thinking with Type is the ultimate resource for utilizing typography in visual communication. This comprehensive guide covers all the fundamentals of typography, including typefaces, kerning, tracking, grids, and layout principles. Ellen Lupton offers precise and concentrated advice on aligning, spacing, ordering, and shaping letters, words, and paragraphs. Through historical and contemporary graphic design examples, readers will learn the rules of typography and how to creatively bend them. With critical essays, enlightening diagrams, practical exercises, and numerous illustrations, this book empowers readers to be innovative within the systems that inform and convey messages.