Type

Author: Jan Tholenaar
Edition: Har/Dig
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 3836511010

Type: A Visual History of Typefaces and Graphic Styles, Vol. 1

This book offers a novel overview of typeface design, exploring the most beautiful and remarkable examples of font catalogs from the history of publishing, with a special emphasis on the period from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century, when color catalogs were at their height. Get Type computer books for free.
Taken from a Dutch collection, this exuberant selection traverses the evolution of the printed letter in all its various incarnations via exquisitely designed catalogs displaying not only type specimens in roman, italic, bold, semi-bold, narrow, and broad, but also characters, borders, ornaments, initial letters and decorations as well as often spectacular examples of the use of the letters. The Victorian fonts, sumptuous and sometimes unbelievably outrageous, Check Type our best computer books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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