Letters of credit : a view of type design / Walter Tracy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tracy, Walter, author.

Contributor:

David R. Godine, Publisher, publisher.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Type and type-founding--History--20th century.

Type and type-founding.

Genre:

History.

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

219, [5] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Edition:

First U. S. Edition

Place of Publication:

Boston : David R. Godine, Publisher, 1986.

Contents:

Part I: Aspects of type design

The vocabulary of type

Type measure

Types for study

Legibility and readability

The making of type

Proportion

The forms of letters

Secondary types: italic, bold face

Numerals

Character spacing

The slab-serif

The sans-serif

Part II: Some designers and their types

The types of Jan van Krimpen

Some types by Frederic Goudy

Three types by Rudolf Koch

The types of W. A. Dwiggins

Stanley Morison's Times Roman

Prospects.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-219) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has dust jacket. Laid in, A letter from the publisher.

ISBN:

0879236361

9780879236366

0860920852

9780860920854

OCLC:

13456415