Typography

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995473096Author Sarah HornPage Count 120Imprint Occasional PapersPublisher Occasional PapersWeight(grams) 300g

The story of a foundational aspect of publishing, from Gutenberg's press to today's digital type. It's common knowledge that the name Gutenberg and the words "moveable type" go together. What's far less known is that Garamond, Baskerville, and Bodoni...

Dafi Kuhne is a Swiss designer who works with analog and digital ways to produce fresh and unique letterpress-printed posters. Using very different kinds of instruments, from a MacBook to a pantograph, for his compositions, he pushes the boundaries of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783721209426Author Slanted PublishersFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Niggli VerlagPublisher Niggli VerlagWeight(grams) 1220g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783721210385Author Matthias HofmannFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Niggli VerlagPublisher Niggli Verlag

Albertus, first carved on a bronze tablet in the 1930s by German Jewish refugee Berthold Wolpe, has proved to be one of the most enduring handcrafted typefaces in the world. It is at once modern and timeless, authoritative and whimsical-renowned as the...

Since its accidental creation at Microsoft in the mid-1990s, Comic Sans has become one of the most used and talked-about typefaces of the digital age. The subject of April Fools' pranks and endless internet discourse, Comic Sans has spawned a movement to...

When Baskerville was first created in 1757, there was concern that it would damage readers' eyes with its combination of thin and thick strokes and tapering serifs. Yet 250 years later, it remains one of the most common typefaces in books of all kinds...

Designer Andy Altmann has been pursuing an obsession with typographic oddities for more than 30 years; and he’s not necessarily interested in the kind of thing you might expect. He delights in the weird and wonderful and finds inspiration in the ordinary...