About Alphabets: Some Marginal Notes on Type Design / Hermann Zapf

About Alphabets: Some Marginal Notes on Type Design / Hermann Zapf

Books


REF.TY.2049
140 p. : ill. ; 17.7 cm
1960
1970
August 1970
Hermann Zapf
Gi Neuert-Hoffmann
Paul Standard
MIT Press
Cambridge
"This is a revised edition of the Typophile Chap Book No. 37 first issued 1960, which was originally based on the idea of the late Paul A. Bennett, New York, and translated by Paul Standard. Designed by the author, set in Linotype Optima, and printed in offset by Ludwig Oehms, at Franksfurt a.M., and bound by the Lassetter bindery, Hamburg, Germany."--Colophon

Includes bibliography of works and publications by Hermann Zapf [p. 90].
Includes bibliography of works about by Hermann Zapf [p. 98].
Typeface examples throughout.