Author: James Moran
Publisher: Ben Uri Gallery & Museum
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Stanley Morison
Author: James Moran
Publisher: Ben Uri Gallery & Museum
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Publisher: Ben Uri Gallery & Museum
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
First Principles of Typography
Author: Stanley Morison
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Printing
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Printing
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Stanley Morison Displayed
Author: Herbert Jones
Publisher: London : F. Muller
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Publisher: London : F. Muller
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Stanley Morison and His Times
Author: Tony Appleton (Firm : Brighton, England)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Letters of Credit
Author: Walter Tracy
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9781567922400
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
The revolution in typesetting - a revolution that over the past two decades has eliminated a five-hundred-year-old system of hot metal production and replaced it with one of photo-generated and computer-driven composition - shows no sign of winding down. This book, more than any other we know, traces the steps that went into that revolution and simultaneously makes the argument that the letter forms themselves are in process of evolution. Tracy argues that, whether they are of the sixteenth or the twentieth century, the forms that comprise our alphabet are subject to the same rules of good taste, proportion, and clarity that have always obtained. But what we face today is vastly different from fifty years ago. For the first time, new technology has made the proliferation (and, as some would maintain, debasement) of letter forms fast and easy (or quick and dirty.) With fifty years of professional experience on both sides of the Atlantic (including thirty years as head of type design for the British Linotype Company), Tracy is in a unique position to make this argument and arrive at his sad conclusion: the design of distinguished, contemporary typefaces is far outnumbered by the mediocre and downright bad. Part of the reason for this deplorable deterioration is a lack of critical analysis of the particular esthetics involved. This step-by-step examination of type-design esthetics is precisely what Tracy provides here, while avoiding both the promoter's hype and the manufacturer's claims. Here are the gut issues of what makes type good or bad, legible or unreadable. Extensively illustrated with both typefaces and line drawings, this book belongs on the shelf of anyone interested in thehistory of letters or in the artistry and peculiar problems that lie behind their production.
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9781567922400
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
The revolution in typesetting - a revolution that over the past two decades has eliminated a five-hundred-year-old system of hot metal production and replaced it with one of photo-generated and computer-driven composition - shows no sign of winding down. This book, more than any other we know, traces the steps that went into that revolution and simultaneously makes the argument that the letter forms themselves are in process of evolution. Tracy argues that, whether they are of the sixteenth or the twentieth century, the forms that comprise our alphabet are subject to the same rules of good taste, proportion, and clarity that have always obtained. But what we face today is vastly different from fifty years ago. For the first time, new technology has made the proliferation (and, as some would maintain, debasement) of letter forms fast and easy (or quick and dirty.) With fifty years of professional experience on both sides of the Atlantic (including thirty years as head of type design for the British Linotype Company), Tracy is in a unique position to make this argument and arrive at his sad conclusion: the design of distinguished, contemporary typefaces is far outnumbered by the mediocre and downright bad. Part of the reason for this deplorable deterioration is a lack of critical analysis of the particular esthetics involved. This step-by-step examination of type-design esthetics is precisely what Tracy provides here, while avoiding both the promoter's hype and the manufacturer's claims. Here are the gut issues of what makes type good or bad, legible or unreadable. Extensively illustrated with both typefaces and line drawings, this book belongs on the shelf of anyone interested in thehistory of letters or in the artistry and peculiar problems that lie behind their production.
A Tally of Types
Author: Stanley Morison
Publisher: David R Godine Pub
ISBN: 9781567920048
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
Stanley Morison provided the impetus and judgement behind the programme of typographical revival carried through by the Monotype Corporation in the 1920s and early 1930s. The Tally is an account, historical, critical and functional, of the types cut under Morison's direction during this period. It is an impressive performance: a fine example of what is now recognised as Morison's characteristic blend of erudition and insight. What started as no more than an attempt to record the facts developed, under his hand, into one of the major statements of typographical practice of its time.
Publisher: David R Godine Pub
ISBN: 9781567920048
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
Stanley Morison provided the impetus and judgement behind the programme of typographical revival carried through by the Monotype Corporation in the 1920s and early 1930s. The Tally is an account, historical, critical and functional, of the types cut under Morison's direction during this period. It is an impressive performance: a fine example of what is now recognised as Morison's characteristic blend of erudition and insight. What started as no more than an attempt to record the facts developed, under his hand, into one of the major statements of typographical practice of its time.
Selected Essays on the History of Letter-forms in Manuscript and Print
Author: Stanley Morison
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521183161
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521183161
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Stanley Morison and His Times
Author: Tony Appleton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
A Brief Survey of Printing
Author: Stanley Morison
Publisher: New York : A.A. Knopf
ISBN:
Category : Printing
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Publisher: New York : A.A. Knopf
ISBN:
Category : Printing
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
A Tally of Types
Author: Stanley Morison
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521200431
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Stanley Morison provided the impetus and judgement behind the programme of typographical revival carried through by the Monotype Corporation in the 1920s and early 1930s. The Tally is an account, historical, critical and functional, of the types cut under Morison's direction during this period.
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521200431
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Stanley Morison provided the impetus and judgement behind the programme of typographical revival carried through by the Monotype Corporation in the 1920s and early 1930s. The Tally is an account, historical, critical and functional, of the types cut under Morison's direction during this period.