Design: an Instrument for Change

Document Design

The Design Process

Typography

Historic Classifications

Type characteristics

Readability

Text Color and Texture

Typographic Cues

The Grid: Organizing your Material

Digital Type Technology

Gestalt Psychology

Perception is an Active Process

People Organize What They See into Figure and Ground

How People Group Figures Depends on the Visual Properties of the Figures

How People Group Figures Depends on "Good Continuation"

How a Figure Looks Depends on its Surroundings

Strong Figures are Stable

The Reader May Add a Dimension: 2-D to 3-D

Gestalt Principles Are Tools Rather
Than Rules For Document Design