Type

ISBN: 9781845110284 出版年：2004 页码：257 Simon Loxley Bloomsbury Publishing

Sine qua non. The naked letter:the anatomy of type. Introduction. The adventure and the art: the obscure origins of a revolution Dynasty: in which William Caslon makes Britain the type centre of the world Garamuddle: when is a sixteenth-century typeface not a sixteenth-century typeface? The maverick tendency: the type and strange afterlife of John Baskerville Detour Meltdown: a stroll around a fallen giant 'Hideous Italians': thicks, thins, and the rise of advertising type American spring: creating the modern age An awful beauty: the private press movement Under fire: Frederic Goudy, type star Detour Typecast: on the trail of the metal fanatics Going Underground: Edward Johnston's letters for London The doves and the serpent: Stanley Morison and the Wardes Dangerous passions: radical European typography in the inter-war years Leper messiah: Gill semi-light, Gill heavy Europe after the rain: rebirth and twilight Detour Portable serenity: the precision and the passion of the letter cutter Two ghosts: forgotten technologies from the dustbin of history Motorway madness: David Kindersley and the great road sign ruckus A company man: Herb Lubalin and the International Typeface Corporation The twenty-six soldiers: fiddling with the format New gods: Neville Brody and the designer decade Revolution again: liberating the letter Detour Inside the micro-foundry: twenty-first-century type Typocalypse. Illustration credits. Bibliography. General index. Typeface index. .