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The Encyclopedia of Fonts

Author: Gwyn Headley

Publisher: Cassell

Published: 2005-02-01

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9781844032068

With its attractive contemporary styling and unbeatable price, this invaluable guide to more than 10,000 fonts and computer typefaces is an essential purchase for graphic designers. The world of type has undergone massive changes in the past few years, allowing designers to order, pay for, and download a font in just a few minutes; the challenge is to select the right type beforehand, and that's where this huge encyclopedia is a boon. With fonts ranging from Arabic to Bitstream to Teluga, it offers unrivaled inspiration to those who work with type everyday.

Encyclopaedia of Type Faces

Author: W. Pincus Jaspert

Publisher: Seven Dials

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 9781841881393

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The standard desktop typography reference for nearly half a century now appears in its fifth revision, with new resources sure to please today's graphic artists, desktop publishers, and website designers. Nearly 2,000 fonts cover every need from the most practical commercial designs to special-purpose seasonal and historic uses. Each typeface is arranged alphabetically for easy reference, with specimens of Roman, Lineale, and Script versions, usually in upper- and lower-case alphabets and numerals, along with information about the type's original founder or manufacturer, and date of its introduction. Along with dozens of new fonts, illustrations show cuts of many classic typefaces that can only be found here. Also revised: a glossary of technical terms and tips on how to classify types. 8 X 11 3/4.

Just My Type

Author: Simon Garfield

Publisher: Profile Books

Published: 2010-10-21

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1847652921

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Just My Type is not just a font book, but a book of stories. About how Helvetica and Comic Sans took over the world. About why Barack Obama opted for Gotham, while Amy Winehouse found her soul in 30s Art Deco. About the great originators of type, from Baskerville to Zapf, or people like Neville Brody who threw out the rulebook, or Margaret Calvert, who invented the motorway signs that are used from Watford Gap to Abu Dhabi. About the pivotal moment when fonts left the world of Letraset and were loaded onto computers ... and typefaces became something we realised we all have an opinion about. As the Sunday Times review put it, the book is 'a kind of Eats, Shoots and Leaves for letters, revealing the extent to which fonts are not only shaped by but also define the world in which we live.' This edition is available with both black and silver covers.

Script Fonts

Author: Geum-Hee Hong

Publisher: Laurence King Publishing

Published: 2016-05-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781780677583

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Fonts based on handwritten scripts are some of the bestselling typefaces of the font foundries. They bring personality and authenticity to graphic design – whether on business cards and flyers, or in packaging and advertising. Script Fonts is a visual encyclopedia of over 300 fonts that includes complete alphabets and numerals for each font and a piece of sample text that shows how each typeface works in the context of a paragraph. It is richly illustrated with over 100 examples of the typefaces as used in manuscripts, on posters, in advertising and other graphic design. The book includes elegant Italian and French cursive scripts, English script fonts, expressive marker fonts, brush and swash fonts, deko and freestyle fonts – all illustrated with historical and contemporary examples. The accompanying CD includes 122 free fonts.

The PostScript Typeface Library

Author: Tony Esposito

Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 508

ISBN-13:

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The second volume of a two-volume set presents sans serif, design, outline, and ornament digital fonts (the first, unseen, reportedly contains serif and script fonts). Alphabetically arranged by section, each page features five typefaces showing 18-point alphabets, numbers, and punctuation, followed by text showings. Also included are a typeface directory, type manufacturers' profiles, hints on working with a service bureau, how to copyfit, and letter-spacing and horizontal scaling guides. For desktop publishers, designers, and typesetters. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Typology

Author: Steven Heller

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 1999-06

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9780811823081

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Organized by historical era and country of origin, each section of this dynamic compendium introduces the culture and aesthetics of the period, discusses how individual styles developed, and offers insights into the artistry of key typographers and foundries. 300 full-color illustrations.

New Vintage Type

Author: Steven Heller

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9780500288184

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Here is a lively and lighthearted survey that looks at the role that old and classic fonts from letterpress to slab serifs and beyond play in contemporary graphic design.Written and compiled by the worlds leading graphic-design historian, the book provides hundreds of examples, as well as informed texts that will entertain, edify and inspire a new generation of students and practitioners to appreciate that the past contains typographic riches for the future.