Treasury of alphabets and lettering : a source book of the best letter forms of past and present for sign painters, graphic artists, commercial artists, typographers, printers, sculptors, architects, and schools of art and design

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Treasury of alphabets and lettering : a source book of the best letter forms of past and present for sign painters, graphic artists, commercial artists, typographers, printers, sculptors, architects, and schools of art and design

Jan Tschichold

Design Press, c1992

  • : pbk

タイトル別名

Meisterbuch der Schrift

Treasury of alphabets and lettering : a handbook of type and lettering by Jan Tschichold with examples from the past and present

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Meisterbuch der Schrift

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注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-234) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This is a sourcebook of the most beautiful type of letters, as selected by the author, as well as a discussion of lettering as a work of art, good and bad letters, the use of capital and lower case letters, word and line spacing, the selection of appropriate letter styles, and the layout of letters and signs. Anyone who works with type should find this facsimile of Tschichold's work of interest. Jan Tschichold was the recipient of prizes that included the AIGA Gold Medal in 1954 and the Leipzig Gutenberg Prize in 1965.

目次

  • Lettering as a work of art
  • good and bad letters
  • the older letter forms
  • recent letter forms
  • classification and nomenclature of basic letter forms
  • the use of capitals
  • word spacing of capitals
  • line spacing of capitals
  • arranging lower case letters
  • line spacing lower case letters
  • selection of the correct letter style
  • layout of lettering and signs
  • beautiful proportions of signs
  • about the ampersand.

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