Anatomy of a typeface. Alexander Lawson.
Material type: TextPublication details: Hamish Hamilton, 1990.Description: [416]pISBN:- 9780241129432 :
- 9780879233334
- 0241129435 (inb.) ;
- 9780241129432 (inb.)
- 0241132673 (hft.)
- 9780241132678 (hft.)
- 686.224 LAW
- Z250
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Long Loan | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending | 686.224 LAW (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00212286 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 405-411) and index.
1.Goudy text and the black-letter types -- 2.Hammer unical -- 3.Cloister Old style -- 4.Centaur -- 5.Bembo -- 6.Arrighi -- 7.Dante -- 8.Goudy old style -- 9.Palatino -- 10.Garamond -- 11.Galliard -- 12.Granjon -- 13.Sabon -- 14.Janson -- 15.Caslon -- 16.Baskerville -- 17.Bodoni -- 18.Bulmer -- 19.Bell -- 20.Oxford -- 21.Caledonia -- 22.Cheltenham -- 23. Bookman -- 24.Times Roman -- 25.Newspaper types -- 26.Franklin Gothic and the twentieth-century Gothics -- 27.Clarendon and the Square-serif revival -- 28.Optima and the Humanist Sans-serif types -- 30.Script, cursive, and decorated types -- 31.Type making from punch to computer.
A survey of type faces which assesses their development from Gothic black letter to photo-composition and computer-generated forms. The book divides the faces into families and traces contemporary faces like Galliard and Janson back to their ancestors.