«This new companion to the best-selling, «Colour Index» offers even more colours and fresh new combinations of colours, making it easier than ever to create harmonious palettes for any project. It contains hundreds of different colour combinations, each with an accurate formula for print and web use. You'll easily find the best colours for your piece with chapters organised by dominant hue, and with unique expansion palettes — sets of four related hues arranged from dark to light — that allow you to explore even more colour combinations for limitless possibilities. Designers, illustrators, photographers and fine artists alike will find this book an indispensable tool when it comes to finding colour-related ideas and solutions.»

«Design expert Jim Krause, author of the best-selling «Index» series returns with a look at type, one of the most fascinating design topics, with conferences and blogs devoted to type, the subject continues to capture the attention of designers; offering an in-depth examination of the creative and practical issues involved in all of the important areas, such as font anatomy, headlines and body texts. «Type Idea Index» eschews the ponderous style found in other books in favour of a fresh accessible approach.»

«Every designer needs a little inspiration now and then and this series of «index» books: «Color Index», «Idea Index» and «Layout Index» (in a transparent carrying case) provides fuel for creativity.»