The Shaping of Our Alphabet: A Study of Changing Type StylesKnopf, 1955 - 228 pages |
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... Italy's chief occupations , war or commerce . They fought the Turk . They fought the Arab . They fought the other Italian states . And , lacking other enemies , families and factions feuded bloodily with one another in the streets . Italy ...
... Italy's chief occupations , war or commerce . They fought the Turk . They fought the Arab . They fought the other Italian states . And , lacking other enemies , families and factions feuded bloodily with one another in the streets . Italy ...
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... Italy just as the Italian Renaissance was ap- proaching full bloom and before it had flung its seed broadcast across the Western world . Sandro Botticelli ( 1447-1510 ) and Leonardo da Vinci ( 1452-1519 ) were just starting their ...
... Italy just as the Italian Renaissance was ap- proaching full bloom and before it had flung its seed broadcast across the Western world . Sandro Botticelli ( 1447-1510 ) and Leonardo da Vinci ( 1452-1519 ) were just starting their ...
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... Italy in 1518 fired with enthusiastic admiration for Italian typography , and ambitious to improve on it . One of the rediscov- eries of the Renaissance had been Euclidian geometry . Several Italians had tried to apply geometry to the ...
... Italy in 1518 fired with enthusiastic admiration for Italian typography , and ambitious to improve on it . One of the rediscov- eries of the Renaissance had been Euclidian geometry . Several Italians had tried to apply geometry to the ...
Table des matières
The Wonderful Attic | 11 |
The Word in the Beginning | 21 |
Printing and the Renaissance | 45 |
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The Shaping of Our Alphabet: A Study of Changing Type Styles Frank Denman Aucun aperçu disponible - 2012 |
The Shaping of Our Alphabet: A Study of Changing Type Styles Frank Denman Aucun aperçu disponible - 2012 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
Ages alphabet American appears Baskerville beauty become Bible Bodoni body bonorum brought called capital Caslon Catilina century Chapter character Cheltenham classic copy dacia decoration Deus developed Dutch early English etiam furor ifte Europe face fashion finem fefe effrenata followed France French furniture furor ifte tuus Garamond give Gothic Goudy Greek hand horum idea ifte tuus eludet important influence invention Italic Italy jactabit audacia known language later leaded learned less letters look machine Morris nihil nihilne te nocturnum omnium original ORNAMENTED palatii patientia noftra period PICA points Primer printers printing published punch quamdiu nos etiam Quoufque tandem Renaissance revival Roman serifs shapes showed sound specimen style tandem abutêre taste things TWO-LINE typographic Victorian vigilia writing