Member rgr… Posted December 6, 2004 Share Posted December 6, 2004 This topic was imported from the Typophile platform Hi, I'm looking for technical manuals or other complicated, linear, hierarchical handbooks with excellent typography. Does anyone know of any famous examples of the genre or have some PDF's or images available? Thanks very much. Link to comment
Member thi… Posted March 18, 2013 Share Posted March 18, 2013 I'd like to revive this conversation. Is there anyone out there who knows about something like this? Please let me know. Thank you. Link to comment
Member Kar… Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 I have long been a fan of schematics and the lack of conscious design inherent in most, the form of text instead arising from requirement and contrast with the technical illustrations. Some very interesting older documents (manuals, articles and schematics) can be found on the one electron site. Link to comment
Member Isl… Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 Many of these types of manuals are for companies that prefer not to make them public. However, there are technical textbooks with good typography. Good usually means unobtrusive, though. Link to comment
Member Jam… Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 If "technical manuals" refers to in-house manuals or instruction manuals, good design often isn't the highest priority since they aren't marketing pieces. But you might look for pieces produced by companies that view design as being important (Apple, IBM, Knoll, etc.). Link to comment
Member phr… Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 @Karl Stange Thank you. Those are awesome. Link to comment
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