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Scripts Elegant Lettering from Design's Golden Age

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ISBN-10: 0500290393

ISBN-13: 9780500290392

Edition: 2012

Authors: Louise Fili, Steven Heller

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Seen in everything from wedding invitations and birth announcements toIOUs, menus, and diplomas, script typefaces impart elegance and sophisticationto a broad variety of texts. Scripts never go out of style, and thehundreds of inventive examples here are sure to inspire today’s designers.Derived from handwriting, these are typefaces that are stylized tosuggest, imply, or symbolize certain traits linked to writing. Their fundamentalcharacteristic is that all the letters, more or less, touch thosebefore and after. Drawn from the Golden Age of scripts, from the nineteenthto the mid-twentieth century, this is the first compilation ofpopular, rare, and forgotten scripts from the United States,…    
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Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Thames & Hudson, Limited
Publication date: 10/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.90" wide x 9.70" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 2.750
Language: English

Louise Fili runs her own New York-based design firm.

Steven Heller is senior Art Director for the New York Times & author of over seventy books on art, culture, & design. He lives in New York City.