- Type and type-founding, Printing, Specimens, Printing, specimens
"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.
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Warm, classical in form, cool and resolved.
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Alexander S. Lawson
- First published
- 1990
- Pages
- 428
- Publisher
- Godine
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780879233327
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