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| #571059 in Books | 2010-07-16 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 1.21 x5.64 x7.78l,1.48 | File type: PDF | 432 pages||15 of 15 people found the following review helpful.| Great history and commentary|By wiredweird|Lawson has created a wonderful, readable historical account. The first 30 chapters each present one typeface ('font' for computer folk). A typeface's chapter analyzes the structural features of the sorts ('glyphs'), noting how the typeface fits into the usual bins labelled 'black letter', or 'modern', etc. That discussion tends to be
To the layman, all printing types look the same. But for typographers, graphic artists and others of that lunatic fringe who believe that the letters we look at daily (and take entirely for granted) are of profound importance, the question of how letters are formed, what shape they assume, and how they have evolved remains one of passionate and continuing concern.
Lawson explores the vast territory of types, their development and uses, their antecedents and offspr...
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