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1989, oversize trade paperback edition, Bedford Arts, San Francisco, CA. 148 pages. Terrific eye-popping extra-large volume presents a collection of essays on typography and type design. Fine Print Magazine, from its first issue in 1975, presented a dazzling one-of-a-kind publication devoted to: bookmaking, typography, printing, bookbinding, paper making, illustration, calligraphy and graphic design. Here are a collection of the best essays from that magazine, with delightful graphics / designs on every page. Just terrific and beautifully printed.
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There are 22 authors, all experts in the field. Edited by Charles A. Bigelow, Paul Hayden Duensing, Linnea Gentry.
Review:
LANCE HIDY, POSTER AND BOOK DESIGNER This timely anthology will not only guide the beginner but fascinate the expert typographer as well... off-the-shelf fonts of Baskerville, Futura, or Palatino are available to anyone with a desktop computer, and new software makes it possible for anybody to design a typeface. This new activity creates curiosity: why so many typefaces? how are they designed? Many answers are in this book, which fills a void in the available literature.
DAVID PANKOW: HEAD, MELBERT B. CARY JR. GRAPHIC ARTS COLLECTION, ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY If there is any doubt that type design is one of the "lively arts," one has only to turn to "On Type", a regularly appearing feature in Fine Print magazine. For those of us who must frequently assemble from meagre or obscure resources what information there is on the history or development of a particular typeface, the On Type essays have been immensely useful, though awkward to get at. With the publication of this anthology, that last impediment has been removed and these essays, remarkably wide ranging in their scope, are now all together in one fascinating volume. No one connected with the study of type will want to be without it, not even excluding the faithful subscribers to Fine Print.
MICHAEL SHERIDAN, VICE-PRESIDENT, FOLIO, INC. The serious user of the new desktop publishing systems will find in this book information ignored by the slick and superficial desktop publishing magazines: what makes for a good typeface? which are the best typefaces? what are the possibilities, and limitations, of computers in type design? I strongly recommend it. -- Publisher Comments
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- PublisherBedford Arts
- ISBN 10 9991997644
- ISBN 13 9789991997643
- BindingPaperback
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