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The twentieth century saw many developments in printing techniques and how fonts were made. Beginning with cold metal type at the start of the century, the industry moved to hot metal type, phototypesetting, and finally digitization. In each phase, certain type designers excelled in harnessing the latest techniques to create beautiful, innovative, and functional new(...)
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The twentieth century saw many developments in printing techniques and how fonts were made. Beginning with cold metal type at the start of the century, the industry moved to hot metal type, phototypesetting, and finally digitization. In each phase, certain type designers excelled in harnessing the latest techniques to create beautiful, innovative, and functional new(...)
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Type designers of the 20th century
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The twentieth century saw many developments in printing techniques and how fonts were made. Beginning with cold metal type at the start of the century, the industry moved to hot metal type, phototypesetting, and finally digitization. In each phase, certain type designers excelled in harnessing the latest techniques to create beautiful, innovative, and functional new fonts. Against a background story of the evolution of technology, the role of the designer, the rise of the advertising agency, and the changing function of the printer, this book explores thirty-eight key type designers, how they worked, the fonts they designed, and their lasting influence on typography. Here, you will find Frederic Goudy and Edward Johnston, Stanley Morison and Roger Excoffon, Hermann Zapf and Adrian Frutiger, and renowned contemporary designers Neville Brody and Carol Twombly, plus many more.
Type designers of the 20th century
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The twentieth century saw many developments in printing techniques and how fonts were made. Beginning with cold metal type at the start of the century, the industry moved to hot metal type, phototypesetting, and finally digitization. In each phase, certain type designers excelled in harnessing the latest techniques to create beautiful, innovative, and functional new fonts. Against a background story of the evolution of technology, the role of the designer, the rise of the advertising agency, and the changing function of the printer, this book explores thirty-eight key type designers, how they worked, the fonts they designed, and their lasting influence on typography. Here, you will find Frederic Goudy and Edward Johnston, Stanley Morison and Roger Excoffon, Hermann Zapf and Adrian Frutiger, and renowned contemporary designers Neville Brody and Carol Twombly, plus many more.
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July 2025
July 2025
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Graphic Design and Typography
Graphic Design and Typography
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The computer has made some typographic rules obsolete and others, previously known only to typesetters, forgotten. However, typography remains a fundamental element of graphic design "About Face" presents and explains the typography basics required by all graphic designers, from the names of the different parts of characters, typeface styles and function, to type(...)
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The computer has made some typographic rules obsolete and others, previously known only to typesetters, forgotten. However, typography remains a fundamental element of graphic design "About Face" presents and explains the typography basics required by all graphic designers, from the names of the different parts of characters, typeface styles and function, to type(...)
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Graphic Design and Typography
Graphic Design and Typography
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September 2004, Mies, Switzerland
September 2004, Mies, Switzerland
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About face : reviving the rules of typography
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The computer has made some typographic rules obsolete and others, previously known only to typesetters, forgotten. However, typography remains a fundamental element of graphic design "About Face" presents and explains the typography basics required by all graphic designers, from the names of the different parts of characters, typeface styles and function, to type measurement, typeface families and type manipulation on the computer. It also looks at typography at work and features a wealth of applied examples by leading designers from around the world.
About face : reviving the rules of typography
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The computer has made some typographic rules obsolete and others, previously known only to typesetters, forgotten. However, typography remains a fundamental element of graphic design "About Face" presents and explains the typography basics required by all graphic designers, from the names of the different parts of characters, typeface styles and function, to type measurement, typeface families and type manipulation on the computer. It also looks at typography at work and features a wealth of applied examples by leading designers from around the world.
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September 2004, Mies, Switzerland
September 2004, Mies, Switzerland
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Graphic Design and Typography
Graphic Design and Typography
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International in scope, Graphic Design before Graphic Designers charts the evolution of print into graphic design between 1700 and 1914. With around 850 illustrations, many specially photographed from private collections, it is of interest to graphic designers, design and social historians, as well as collectors of print and printed emphemera alike.
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International in scope, Graphic Design before Graphic Designers charts the evolution of print into graphic design between 1700 and 1914. With around 850 illustrations, many specially photographed from private collections, it is of interest to graphic designers, design and social historians, as well as collectors of print and printed emphemera alike.
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Graphic design before graphic designers: the printer as designer and craftsman 1700-1914
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International in scope, Graphic Design before Graphic Designers charts the evolution of print into graphic design between 1700 and 1914. With around 850 illustrations, many specially photographed from private collections, it is of interest to graphic designers, design and social historians, as well as collectors of print and printed emphemera alike.
Graphic design before graphic designers: the printer as designer and craftsman 1700-1914
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International in scope, Graphic Design before Graphic Designers charts the evolution of print into graphic design between 1700 and 1914. With around 850 illustrations, many specially photographed from private collections, it is of interest to graphic designers, design and social historians, as well as collectors of print and printed emphemera alike.
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November 2012
November 2012
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Graphic Design and Typography
Graphic Design and Typography
