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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Página 277
... serif , and the vanishing curve are more irritating in the smaller than in the larger sizes . Ordinary eyesight does not seize at a glance the entire face of modern type ; it dimly sees hair - lines or serifs ; it deciphers the stems ...
... serif , and the vanishing curve are more irritating in the smaller than in the larger sizes . Ordinary eyesight does not seize at a glance the entire face of modern type ; it dimly sees hair - lines or serifs ; it deciphers the stems ...
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... serifs " because , among other features of the roman alphabet which they lack , is a total absence of serifs . They bear the same relation to roman letters as would an engineer's drawings for a trolley track . At the moment they are ...
... serifs " because , among other features of the roman alphabet which they lack , is a total absence of serifs . They bear the same relation to roman letters as would an engineer's drawings for a trolley track . At the moment they are ...
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... serifs at the tops of the letters . bb k " The typical ' old style ' serif at the top ( k ) tilts as the pen is tilted ; the loop is a tilted sweep of the slanted pen ; while the serif and loop of the ' modern ' letter ( 1 ) partake of ...
... serifs at the tops of the letters . bb k " The typical ' old style ' serif at the top ( k ) tilts as the pen is tilted ; the loop is a tilted sweep of the slanted pen ; while the serif and loop of the ' modern ' letter ( 1 ) partake of ...
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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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