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Genre/Form: | Specimens Books Spécimens |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Alexander S Lawson; Maple-Vail Book Manufacturing Group, |
ISBN: | 0879233338 9780879233334 087923332X 9780879233327 |
OCLC Number: | 14068305 |
Description: | 428 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Goudy text and the black-letter types -- Hammer Uncial -- Cloister Old Style -- Centaur -- Bembo -- Arrighi -- Dante -- Goudy Old Style -- Palatino -- Garamond -- Galliard -- Granjon -- Sabon -- Janson -- Caslon -- Baskerville -- Bodoni -- Bulmer -- Bell -- Oxford -- Caledonia -- Cheltenham -- Bookman -- Times Roman -- Newspaper types -- Franklin Gothic and the Twentieth-century Gothics -- Clarendon and the Square-serif Revival -- Optima and the Humanist Sans-serif types -- Futura and the Geometric Sans-serif types -- Script, Cursive, and Decorated types -- Type making from punch to computer. |
Responsibility: | Alexander Lawson. |
Abstract:
An analysis of letter forms, from Garamond and Bembo to the design and manufacture of sans-serif and newspaper type.
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