Author: United States. Government Printing OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Monotype Manual
Author: United States. Government Printing OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Type Specimens
Author: Dori GriffinPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350116629
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Type Specimens introduces readers to the history of typography and printing through a chronological visual tour of the books, posters, and ephemera designed to sell fonts to printers, publishers, and eventually graphic designers. This richly illustrated book guides design educators, advanced design students, design practitioners, and type aficionados through four centuries of visual and trade history, equipping them to contextualize the aesthetics and production of type in a way that is practical, engaging, and relevant to their practice. Fully illustrated throughout with 200 color images of type specimens and related ephemera, the book illuminates the broader history of typography and printing, showing how letterforms and their technologies have evolved over time, inspiring and guiding designers of today.
Monotype
Author: History of the Linotype Company
Author: Frank J. RomanoPublisher: RIT Press
ISBN: 9781933360607
Category : Inventors
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
From the Victorian era to the start of the twenty-first century, the Mergenthaler Linotype Company dominated the typesetting and printing industries. Unlike previous books which have ended with the invention of the Linotype, Frank Romano tells the rest of the story. This book details the products, the people, and the corporate activities that kept the company ahead of its competition in hot metal, phototypesetting, and pre-press technology. Over ten corporate entities eventually formed the U.S. manufacturer, which ended its corporate life as a division of a German press maker. What began in 1886 ended finally in May 2013, when the Linotype Library division of Monotype Imaging was closed down. After 127 years, the last resting place of the history of the Linotype Company is in this book.
Monotype Linotype
Author: Rochester Monotype Composition Co., IncPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Monotype
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Just My Type
Author: Simon GarfieldPublisher: Profile Books
ISBN: 1847652921
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Just My Type is not just a font book, but a book of stories. About how Helvetica and Comic Sans took over the world. About why Barack Obama opted for Gotham, while Amy Winehouse found her soul in 30s Art Deco. About the great originators of type, from Baskerville to Zapf, or people like Neville Brody who threw out the rulebook, or Margaret Calvert, who invented the motorway signs that are used from Watford Gap to Abu Dhabi. About the pivotal moment when fonts left the world of Letraset and were loaded onto computers ... and typefaces became something we realised we all have an opinion about. As the Sunday Times review put it, the book is 'a kind of Eats, Shoots and Leaves for letters, revealing the extent to which fonts are not only shaped by but also define the world in which we live.' This edition is available with both black and silver covers.
Inland Printer, American Lithographer
Author: Typewriter Topics
Author: Typographical Printing-surfaces
Author: Lucien Alphonse LegrosPublisher: London : Longmans, Green
ISBN:
Category : Printing
Languages : en
Pages : 914
Book Description
Arabic Type-Making in the Machine Age
Author: Titus NemethPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004349308
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 537
Book Description
Arabic is the third most widely used script in the world, and gave rise to one of the richest manuscript cultures of mankind. Its representation in type has engaged printers, engineers, businesses and designers since the 16th century, and today most digital devices render Arabic type. Yet the evolution of the printed form of Arabic, and its development from metal to pixels, has not been charted before. Arabic Type-Making in the Machine Age provides the first comprehensive account of this history using previously undocumented archival sources. In this richly illustrated volume, Titus Nemeth narrates the evolution of Arabic type under the influence of changing technologies from the perspective of a practitioner, combining historical research with applied design considerations.