Revival type : digital typefaces inspired by the past / Paul Shaw ; foreword by Jonathan Hoefler
2017, First Edition. New Haven, CT : Yale University Press. Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked half cloth over paper boards. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #393777
ISBN: 9780300219296
Physical description: vii, 247 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 26 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-245) and index.
Contents: Foreword -- Introduction -- Terminology -- Inscriptional letters -- Blackletter -- Venetian oldstyle and aldine types -- French oldstyle types -- Dutch oldstyle types -- Transitional types -- Neoclassical types -- Fat faces -- Slab serifs -- Wood type -- Late Victorian types -- 20th century seriffed types -- Grotesques and gothics -- Geometric sans serifs -- Humanist sans serifs -- Scripts.
Subjects: Type and type-founding ; Specimens.
Type and type-founding Digital techniques.
Price: €28.95