Classic Typefaces

Classic Typefaces
Author: David Consuegra
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2011-10-10
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1621535827


Download Classic Typefaces Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Graphic designers will enrich their understanding of American type design and type designers with this unique and extensive reference. The fascinating history of type in America is chronicled through the typefaces and biographies of sixty-two of the most influential type designers, including Linn Boyd Benton, Morris Fuller Benton, and Darius Wells, and through the description and history of nine American type foundries. Complete with samples of 334 different typefaces, and 700 black-and-white illustrations, this eye-popping reference reveals the expansive contribution America has made to the world of type design.


Classic Typefaces
Language: en
Pages: 320
Authors: David Consuegra
Categories: Design
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-10-10 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

GET EBOOK

Graphic designers will enrich their understanding of American type design and type designers with this unique and extensive reference. The fascinating history o
Classic Type Faces and how to Use Them
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Jacob Israel Biegeleisen
Categories: Printing
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995 - Publisher: Courier Dover Publications

GET EBOOK

Exceptionally useful workbook includes 75 widely used alphabets in complete fonts with lower cases. Also, 16 favorite typefaces and 940 body and display type sp
Typeface
Language: en
Pages: 260
Authors: Tamye Riggs
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-07-29 - Publisher: Springer

GET EBOOK

"Typeface: Classic Typography for Contemporary Design is a unique sourcebook featuring forty-six classic typefaces that continue to resonate with today's most i
New Vintage Type
Language: en
Pages: 192
Authors: Steven Heller
Categories: Computer fonts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher:

GET EBOOK

Here is a lively and lighthearted survey that looks at the role that old and classic fonts from letterpress to slab serifs and beyond play in contemporary graph
New Vintage Type
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Steven Heller
Categories: Computer fonts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher:

GET EBOOK

Here is a lively and lighthearted survey that looks at the role that old and classic fonts - from letterpress to slab serifs and beyond - play in contemporary g