Dot-Font Talking about Fonts

Name: Dot-Font Talking about Fonts
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ISBN: 9780977282708

ISBN-10: 0977282708

ISBN-13: 9780977282708

Edition: 2006

Authors: John D. Berry

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The 21st century promises no shortage of technological advances that will permit people to rethink how they used to go about tasks long a part of life, from doing laundry to designing a typeface. Mark Batty Publisher proudly announces the first two titles in an ongoing saewries that will track, respond to and engage with the issues and possibilities of 21st century graphic design and typography, culling information from the sources that create, implement and make popular these innovations. These first two books,

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Mark Batty Publisher, LLC
Publication date: 2/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 128
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Introduction


Tradition


Type under the knife


The pleasures of old type books


Old Knew


Meeting the revivals


Type traditions in a digital age


The next Sabon


Dutch Type Library


The Enschede Type Foundry


Mr. Jefferson's typeface


Optima nova


Contemporary


Hoefler KO's Specimen problems


An American typeface


Warm modernism in profile


The din of "undesigned" typefaces


A new slant on "italic"


Industrial cool


Ample scope for typography


Personalities


The world on the page


Robert Norton


The readable designer


Feliciano Type Foundry


Mechanics


Where type designs come from


Not your father's sans serif


The human side of sans serif


Off the wall


Then and now


Index