Twentieth-Century Type Designers by Sebastian Carter (Author)
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ISBN: 9780393701999
Publisher : W W Norton & Co Inc, 1 Jun. 1995
Hardcover, 193 pages
Although the skeleton shapes of the letters of our alphabet hardly change, many skilled type designers have devoted much time, sometimes their whole lives, to drawing different versions of the outlines. This book serves as an introduction to the concept of typefaces and to some of the personalities who have created them - Goudy, Rogers, Koch, Gill, Morison, Van Krimpen, Trump, Tschichold, Frutiger, and Zapf - and places them in the context of the enormous changes that have occurred the 20th century in the methods of creating and setting type.