Printing Types: An Introduction / Alexander Lawson

Printing Types: An Introduction / Alexander Lawson

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REF.TY.1953
119p.; ill., Faks.
1971
Beacon Press
"This is a sourcebook, for the beginner and professional alike, a guide to recognition and identification of the meaning of type. [...] Alexander Lawson, a professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology's School of Printing, wrote Printing Types in response to a need in his own course on the development of printing types."--book jacket Table of Contents: A Printer's Type. Historical Development; Mechanization of Typesetting; Phototypesetting; Computerized Typesetting; Photolettering Devices; Protection of Type Designs; Single Types--Foundry and Monotype; Display Sizes of Type; Small Capitals; Numerals; Font-- Nomenclature. Nomenclature of a Printer's Type; Nomenclature of Typography-- Type Classification. The Need for a Systematic Approach; The Vox System; The ATypl System; The British Standards System; The DIN System; The Requirements of a Rational System; An Attempt to Formulate a Rational System; Sources of Printing Types.