Twentieth Century Type DesignersLund Humphries, 1995 - 192 pagine Although the skeleton shapes of the letters of our alphabet hardly change, many skilled type designers have devoted much time, sometimes their whole lives, to drawing different versions of the outlines. This book serves as an introduction to the concept of typefaces and to some of the personalities who have created them - Goudy, Rogers, Koch, Gill, Morison, Van Krimpen, Trump, Tschichold, Frutiger, and Zapf - and places them in the context of the enormous changes that have occurred this century in the methods of creating and setting type. A new generation of typographers working in the latter half of this century, such as Matthew Carter, Sumner Stone and others, are now profiled. Working with entirely different tools from their predecessors, they reflect the new typography in varying degrees. |
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Foreword | 6 |
Old types for new machines | 24 |
The designers I | 39 |
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