The Shaping of Our Alphabet: A Study of Changing Type StylesKnopf, 1955 - 228 pages |
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... writing . A symbol expressed an idea rather than a sound . While such a language , if it develops enough ideograms and a system of combining them into compound ideas , may in time become richly expressive , it will also become more and ...
... writing . A symbol expressed an idea rather than a sound . While such a language , if it develops enough ideograms and a system of combining them into compound ideas , may in time become richly expressive , it will also become more and ...
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... writing the same text , which one of their number read aloud . Books such as the Book of Kells were the work of monks to whom neither time nor money was of any importance . Elsewhere there were scribes who were less conscientious . Not ...
... writing the same text , which one of their number read aloud . Books such as the Book of Kells were the work of monks to whom neither time nor money was of any importance . Elsewhere there were scribes who were less conscientious . Not ...
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... writing in general use . There was the formal hand used in writing books ; and there was an informal running hand used for letters , accounts , and other less permanent purposes . Basing his de- sign on such informal writing , Aldus ...
... writing in general use . There was the formal hand used in writing books ; and there was an informal running hand used for letters , accounts , and other less permanent purposes . Basing his de- sign on such informal writing , Aldus ...
Table des matières
The Wonderful Attic | 11 |
The Word in the Beginning | 21 |
Printing and the Renaissance | 45 |
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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