Type : the best in digital classic text fonts / [editors, Tom Carnase, Baruch Gorkin ; publisher and creative director, B. Martin Pedersen].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Carnase, Tom.

Gorkin, Baruch.

Pedersen, B. Martin

Graphis Press Corp.

Atha Tehon Thiras Art and Design Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Graphis digital font annual ; 1.

Graphis digital font annual ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Printing--Specimens--Catalogs.

Printing.

Type and type-founding--Digital techniques--Catalogs.

Type and type-founding.

Computerized typesetting--Catalogs.

Computerized typesetting.

Type and type-founding--Digital techniques.

Genre:

Beispielsammlung.

Catalogs.

Specimens.

Penn Provenance:

Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)

Tehon, Susan (donor)

Physical Description:

xviii, 217 pages, 5 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portraits ; 30 cm.

Manufacture:

Hong Kong : Printed by Palace Press International.

Other Title:

Best in digital classic text fonts

Place of Publication:

Z̈ürich, Switzerland : Graphis Press Corp., [©1995]

Summary:

The first volume in a new Graphis series on type specimens, this book provides an immediate view, based on technical and aesthetic criteria, of the best digitally available versions of the classic typefaces. The selection was determined by analyzing dozens of typefaces produced by the world's best foundries.

Notes:

"Publication no. 242"--T.p. verso.

"This volume is intended as a practical workbook of type and typography. In essence, it shows careful selections of the best examples of the faces available today - a designer's basic arsenal of faces."--Foreword.

Local Notes:

Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Atha Tehon.

Tehon Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

3857094575

9783857094576

0823064484

9780823064489

OCLC:

33239336