From Gutenberg to opentype: an illustrated history of type from the earliest letterforms to the latest digital fonts
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1. Verfasser: Dodd, Robin (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Vancouver [u.a.] Hartley & Marks 2006
Ausgabe:1. publ.
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Beschreibung:Includes index
Before printing -- The Renaissance : Johannes Gutenberg & movable type ; Aldus Manutius & the Italian Old-face ; Bembo: the Italian Old-face ; Claude Garamond & the French Old-face ; Christopher Plantin & the Netherlands -- The Enlightenment : William Caslon & the English Old-face ; Caslon: the last Old-face ; The king's Roman: the transition begins ; Pierre Simon Fournier & the point system ; Baskerville & typography as an art form ; The Didot family & the Modern face ; Giambattista Bodoni & the Modern face ; Bodoni: the typeface itself -- The machine age : The fat-face & the slab-serif Egyptians ; Slab-serifs: the types ; Clarendon: the Fann Street Foundry ; The 19th century: technical developments ; William Morris & looking back for the way ahead ; Cheltenham: the Old-style ; The 19th century: making type ; Theodore L. De Vinne & New Century --
Introduction to early modernism : Morris Fuller Benton & Franklin Gothic ; Modernism: 20th-century influences ; The Bauhaus & the New Typography ; Paul Renner & Futura ; Futura: the typeface itself ; Stanley Morison & Times New Roman ; Times New Roman: the typeface itself ; The 20th century: four American type designers ; Eric Gill & his sans-serif -- After the second world war : Max Miedinger & Helvetica ; Helvetica: the typeface itself ; The International style: the impact on Europe ; Adrian Frutiger & the photo sans-serif ; Univers: the typeface itself ; Hermann Zapf & Palatino ; Palatino: the typeface itself ; American graphic design: before and after the Second World War ; Optima sans-serif: the typeface itself ; Technical developments: from letterpress to offset lithography ; Technical developments: from metal type to phototypesetting ; Frutiger: the other sans-serif --
The postmodern era : The New Wave: postmodern typographic design ; Adobe and the personal computer ; Hermann Zapf: script fonts and Zapfino ; Zapfino: better with Open Type -- Digital typefoundries : The relative newcomers: larger foundries ; More relative newcomers: smaller foundries -- A brief introduction to type recognition and classification -- Glossary
Beschreibung:192 S. Ill. 26 cm
ISBN:0881792101
9780881792102

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