Books and Printing: A Treasury for TypophilesPaul A. Bennett World Publishing Company, 1951 - 417 páginas A collection of forty articles, poems, and essays by practitioners of the art of bookmaking. A unique feature of this book is that its articles are set in twenty-two different typefaces; thus it serves as a student's specimen book, affording an interesting comparison of the "color" and body of various composition faces while at the same time supplementing the comments of the typographic experts. More than one hundred illustrations of printers' marks, decorative bookplates, specimen pages, etc., complement the text--From publisher description. |
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... serifs or of thickness or thin- ness . These qualities , though one or other of them may be commonly associated with one alphabet more than another , are not essential AAA aaa aaa Figure 1 illustrates the contention that slope in either ...
... serifs or of thickness or thin- ness . These qualities , though one or other of them may be commonly associated with one alphabet more than another , are not essential AAA aaa aaa Figure 1 illustrates the contention that slope in either ...
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... serif detail , much better handled by natural pen action in b . The arch of a letter , frequently handled in type as c , is more crisp and attractive in d , the natural pen form . În type , serifs help carry the eye in a horizontal ...
... serif detail , much better handled by natural pen action in b . The arch of a letter , frequently handled in type as c , is more crisp and attractive in d , the natural pen form . În type , serifs help carry the eye in a horizontal ...
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... serifs , ' or finishing strokes . " " hairline thick stems " ascender " And serifs serifs loop How the variations that produce the different styles of Roman types actually came about is easily understood by seeing how the nib of the pen ...
... serifs , ' or finishing strokes . " " hairline thick stems " ascender " And serifs serifs loop How the variations that produce the different styles of Roman types actually came about is easily understood by seeing how the nib of the pen ...
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OTTO F EGE The Story of the Alphabet | 3 |
LANCELOT HOGBEN Printing Paper and Playing Cards | 15 |
RUTH S GRANNISS Colophons | 31 |
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