Format:
1 Online-Ressource (248 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
London Bloomsbury Publishing 2020 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Edition:
Also issued in print
ISBN:
9780755621910
Content:
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.
Content:
"Type is fashion, type is history. From Gurenberg's first moveable type to the Internet, Simon Loxley weaves the story of letters through the history of our time. Type has grown out of ambition, jealousy, desire, treachery and love. Never again will you look at your letters, your bank statements, or your books in the same way."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Also issued in print.
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780857730176
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781845110284
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781850433972
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9780755621910
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