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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... legibility . I feel that the proper standard of beauty in types basically resides in their utility , but there are , nevertheless , secondary esthetic attributes which may be included without any sacrifice of life and vigor and legibility ...
... legibility . I feel that the proper standard of beauty in types basically resides in their utility , but there are , nevertheless , secondary esthetic attributes which may be included without any sacrifice of life and vigor and legibility ...
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... legibility . But the result then acquires something of the character of an object of art rather than a book . Letter - spacing is often misused . It is safe to say that lower- case type should practically never be letter - spaced , for ...
... legibility . But the result then acquires something of the character of an object of art rather than a book . Letter - spacing is often misused . It is safe to say that lower- case type should practically never be letter - spaced , for ...
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... legibility is the greatest enemy , the infamous thing that must at all costs be crushed . We read , he argues , too easily . Our eyes slide over the words , and the words , in consequence , mean nothing to us . An illegible type makes ...
... legibility is the greatest enemy , the infamous thing that must at all costs be crushed . We read , he argues , too easily . Our eyes slide over the words , and the words , in consequence , mean nothing to us . An illegible type makes ...
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OTTO F EGE The Story of the Alphabet | 3 |
LANCELOT HOGBEN Printing Paper and Playing Cards | 15 |
WROTH The First Work with | 65 |
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