Anatomy of a Typeface / Alexander Lawson

Anatomy of a Typeface / Alexander Lawson

Books


REF.TY.1124
428 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
1990
David R. Godine
Boston
typography
Type and type-founding, Printing, Letters, Typography
Lawson, a scholar-printer in the tradition of Isaiah Thomas, Theodore Low De Vinne, and Daniel Berkeley Updike, was considered throughout the country as an authority on the history, design, and development of printing types. Here, he explores letter forms and their division into ‘families’, considering a broad range of international typefaces as he delves into the development and use of types, as well as their antecedents and offspring. This is considered the first full-scale investigation of typefaces since D.B. Updike’s 1922 Printing Types. Also includes a bibliography and index. From Colophon: “Anatomy of a Typeface was set in Galliard, a typeface designed by Matthew Carter and introduced in 1978 by the Mergenthaler Linotype Company. Based on the type created by Robert Granjon in the sixteenth century, Galliard is the first of its genre to be designed exclusively for phototypesetting.”