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The typographic medium / Kate Brideau.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) Z246 .B7375 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brideau, Kate, author.
- Series:
- History and foundations of information science
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Graphic design (Typography).
- Graphic design (Typography)--History.
- History.
- Type and type-founding.
- Type and type-founding--History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "Explores typography as a medium that we understand very little, even as we consume vast amounts of information through it"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The Battle of Form & Function
- Typography is Shape
- The Typographic Skeleton
- Type's Outer Limit
- Relational Shapes
- Why Am I a Triangle?
- Glossary of Typefaces & Type Systems.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780262045858
- 0262045850
- OCLC:
- 1193558681
- Publisher Number:
- 99988794830
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