The Shaping of Our Alphabet: A Study of Changing Type StylesKnopf, 1955 - 228 pages |
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... readability . He started with the sound premise that we read lower case by word shapes rather than by individual letters ... readable face . Somehow it didn't work out quite as he expected . Cheltenham is not considered an outstandingly ...
... readability . He started with the sound premise that we read lower case by word shapes rather than by individual letters ... readable face . Somehow it didn't work out quite as he expected . Cheltenham is not considered an outstandingly ...
Page 89
... readable . Accordingly , their type had to sacrifice much of the gracefulness and liveliness of Garamond . The lower case is larger , at the expense of ascenders and descenders . The type is more even in color and more monotonous . Many ...
... readable . Accordingly , their type had to sacrifice much of the gracefulness and liveliness of Garamond . The lower case is larger , at the expense of ascenders and descenders . The type is more even in color and more monotonous . Many ...
Page 164
... recapture the Victorian flavor , and for these one typog- rapher has available a collection of 1,000 old - fashioned faces . ( Frederick Nelson Phillips , Inc. ) Victorian Confusion , 1850-90 [ 165 readable faces now used.
... recapture the Victorian flavor , and for these one typog- rapher has available a collection of 1,000 old - fashioned faces . ( Frederick Nelson Phillips , Inc. ) Victorian Confusion , 1850-90 [ 165 readable faces now used.
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
42-line Bible ad finem fefe American American Type Founders Baskerville Bible bla bla bla Bodoni Caslon Catilina century Cheltenham Cheltenham Bold confenfus bonorum omnium confilia non fentis developed Dutch effe effrenata jactabit audacia English etiam furor ifte face fefe effrenata jactabit finem fefe effrenata founts fuit fuper furor ifte tuus Garamond Gothic Goudy Greek Gutenberg habendi fenatus locus horum ora vultufque ifte tuus eludet invention Italic Jenson KENNERLEY letters Linotype LONG PRIMER Mainz modern Morris movable type munitiffimus habendi fenatus nibil nihil confenfus bonorum nihil hic munitiffimus nihil horum nihil timor populi nihil urbis vigilia nihilne te nocturnum nocturnum præfidium palatii patientia noftra PICA printers printing punch punch-cutting quæ quam quamdiu nos etiam quem ad finem quod Quoufque tandem abutêre Renaissance serifs SMALL PICA style type design type foundry typefounders typographic Victorian vultufque moverunt W. A. Dwiggins καὶ ὁ θεὸς אלהים