The Complete Typographer

The Complete Typographer

Author: Christopher Perfect

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13:

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This 4-color guide to typography covers the history and development from its manufacturer from handcraft methods, cold metal and modern electronic photo composition including desk top publishing.


The Printed Picture

The Printed Picture

Author: Richard Benson

Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9780870707216

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Relief printing : woodcut, metal type, and wood engraving -- Intaglio and planographic printing : engraving, etching, mezzotint, and lithography -- Color printing : hand coloring and multiple-impression color -- Bits and pieces : modern art prints, oddities, and photographic precursors -- Early photography in silver : daguerreotypes, early silver paper processes and tintypes -- Non-silver processes : carbon, blueprint, platinum, and a couple of others -- Modern photography : developing-out gelatin silver printing -- Color notes : primary colors and neutrality -- Color photography : separation-based processes and chromogenic prints -- Photography in ink : relief and intaglio printing : the letterpress halftone and gravure printing -- Photography in ink : planographic printing : collotype and photo offset lithography -- Digital processes : binary issues, inkjet, dye sublimation, and digital C-prints -- Where do we go from here? : some questions about the future


100 Wood Type Alphabets

100 Wood Type Alphabets

Author: Rob Roy Kelly

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1977-01-01

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13: 0486235335

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Beautiful selection of 100 19th-century American wood type fonts, many reproduced at actual size. Each font features a complete alphabet of capitals; many include lowercase letters, numerals, and punctuation marks.


The Book of Signs

The Book of Signs

Author: Rudolf Koch

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2013-12-31

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 0486153908

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Famed German type designer renders 493 classified and documented illustrations divided into 14 categories, including general signs, Christian signs, astronomical signs, the four elements, house and holding marks, runes, and more.