Type : the secret history of letters /: the secret history of letters. (2006)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Type : the secret history of letters /: the secret history of letters. (2006)
- Main Title:
- Type : the secret history of letters
- Further Information:
- Note: Simon Loxley.
- Authors:
- Loxley, Simon
- Contents:
- Sine qua non -- The naked letter: the anatomy of type -- 1. The adventure and the art: the obscure origins of a revolution -- 2. Dynasty: in which William Caslon makes Britain the type centre of the world -- 3. Garamuddle: when is a sixteenth-century typeface not a sixteenth-century typeface? -- 4. The maverick tendency: the type and strange afterlife of John Baskerville -- Detour -- Meltdown: a stroll around a fallen giant -- 5. 'Hideous Italians': thicks, thins, and the rise of advertising type -- 6. American spring: creating the modern age -- 7. An awful beauty: the private press movement -- 8. Under fire: Frederic Goudy, type star -- Detour -- Typecast: on the trail of the metal fanatics -- 9. Going Underground: Edward Johnston's letters for London -- 10. The doves and the serpent: Stanley Morison and the Wardes -- 11. Dangerous passions: radical European typography in the inter-war years -- 12. Leper messiah: Gill semi-light, Gill heavy -- 13. Europe after the rain: rebirth and twilight -- Detour -- Portable serenity: the precision and the passion of the letter cutter -- 14. Two ghosts: forgotten technologies from the dustbin of history -- 15. Motorway madness: David Kindersley and the great road sign ruckus -- 16. A company man: Herb Lubalin and the International Typeface Corporation -- 17. The twenty-six soldiers: fiddling with the format -- 18. New gods: Neville Brody and the designer decade -- 19. Revolution again: liberating the letter -- Detour Inside theSine qua non -- The naked letter: the anatomy of type -- 1. The adventure and the art: the obscure origins of a revolution -- 2. Dynasty: in which William Caslon makes Britain the type centre of the world -- 3. Garamuddle: when is a sixteenth-century typeface not a sixteenth-century typeface? -- 4. The maverick tendency: the type and strange afterlife of John Baskerville -- Detour -- Meltdown: a stroll around a fallen giant -- 5. 'Hideous Italians': thicks, thins, and the rise of advertising type -- 6. American spring: creating the modern age -- 7. An awful beauty: the private press movement -- 8. Under fire: Frederic Goudy, type star -- Detour -- Typecast: on the trail of the metal fanatics -- 9. Going Underground: Edward Johnston's letters for London -- 10. The doves and the serpent: Stanley Morison and the Wardes -- 11. Dangerous passions: radical European typography in the inter-war years -- 12. Leper messiah: Gill semi-light, Gill heavy -- 13. Europe after the rain: rebirth and twilight -- Detour -- Portable serenity: the precision and the passion of the letter cutter -- 14. Two ghosts: forgotten technologies from the dustbin of history -- 15. Motorway madness: David Kindersley and the great road sign ruckus -- 16. A company man: Herb Lubalin and the International Typeface Corporation -- 17. The twenty-six soldiers: fiddling with the format -- 18. New gods: Neville Brody and the designer decade -- 19. Revolution again: liberating the letter -- Detour Inside the micro-foundry: twenty-first-century type -- 20. Typocalypse. … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- London : I.B. Tauris
- Publication Date:
- 2006
- Extent:
- 1 online resource, illustrations
- Subjects:
- 686.22409
Type and type-founding -- History
Type and type-founding
Electronic books
History - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9780857717610
0857717618
9780857730176
0857730177 - Related ISBNs:
- 1845110285
9781845110284 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.394699
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