Typologia
Typologia

Author: Frederic W Goudy

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1978-01-18

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780520032781

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Typologia presents more or less graphically Frederic Goudy's work in type design and describes his own methods of type production. His remarks on type legibility and fine printing, as presented in the body of the book, present the conclusions of a craftsman intensely interested in every phase of typography. The book itself, which Goudy was asked by the University of California Press to write, plan, and supervise, has been set in a type designed by Goudy and and first employed for the exclusive use of the University–University of California Old Style.

Sixteenth-Century Printing Types of the Low Countries
Sixteenth-Century Printing Types of the Low Countries

Author: Hendrik D.L. Vervliet

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2024-06-17

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9004618880

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This pioneer work is an annotated catalogue, illustrated with specimens of the types made during the sixteenth century in the area now covered by the Netherlands and Belgium. The influence of the sixteenth-century typecutters was considerable; in fact, many of their type faces, described in this book, were to be found in English printing offices of those days and even much later.

The Palaeotypography of the French Renaissance
The Palaeotypography of the French Renaissance

Author: Hendrik D. L. Vervliet

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 584

ISBN-13: 9004169822

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This collection of thirteen essays examines sixteenth-century type design in France. Typefaces developed during this period were to influence decisively the typography of the centuries which followed, and they continue to influence a great many contemporary typefaces. The papers' common goal is to establish the paternity of the typefaces described and critically to appraise their attributions, many of which have previously been inadequately ascribed. Such an approach will be of interest to type historians and type designers seeking better-documented attributions, and to historians, philologists, and bibliographers, whose study of historical imprints will benefit from more accurate type descriptions. The papers and illustrations focus on the most important letter-cutters of the French Renaissance, including Simon de Colines, Robert Estienne, Claude Garamont, Robert Granjon, Pierre Haultin, and also include a number of minor masters of the period.