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B2926. Alphabet Stories: A Chronicle of Technical Developments
B2926. Alphabet Stories: A Chronicle of Technical Development by Hermann Zapf. 2007. 7.25x11. 150pp. Hardcover.
NEW! Zapf provides us with an illustrated story of his life with letters: pen drawn, metal type and computer programs and pixels, from the early 20th century through 2006. Designed by Hermann Zapf. Blue cloth with HZ monogram on cover. Set in Palatino Nova and Palatino Sans. 96 color illustrations. No dust jacket. Also available in German: B2972. Alphabetgeschichten
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CD15. Arthur Baker's Font Collection
CD15. Arthur Baker Font Collection.
For a limited time this collection of Arthur Baker’s Calligraphic Typefaces and Ornaments is available for only $99. That is $99 for the entire collection. For 14 faces you receive the regular font and its italic and sets of roman and italic fonts with long ascenders/descenders and short ascenders/descenders. (Five fonts for each face). The collection also includes Kigali Block and Zigzag,Mercator and Mercator Swash,Hiroshige Sans Book,Medium, Bold, Black with all italics. The eight delightful fonts of ornaments are: arrows, feathers, fishface flowery florettes, flowery, hands, plumes, swirls, and swooshes. Specify MAC or PC.
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B2908. Fraktur mon Amour/Schlansky
Fraktur mon Amour
By Judith Schlansky. 2006. 646pp. 5"x8". Hardcover.
Presents over 300 Blackletter fonts (capitals, lowercase, numbers, accented characters along with a brief text
setting ). Covers rotunda, batarde, textura, schwabacher, fraktur, modern, initials/decoratives, and contemporary
fonts. For each font, date, designer and original foundry along with digital foundry/web address where applicable. Facing each font page is a decorative page using characters from the font. Printed in black and pink. CD-Rom with 130 blackletter fonts included.
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B2785. Calligraphic Tradition Blackletter (Scripsit)
Calligraphic Tradition in Blackletter Type
By Paul Shaw. 1999. 48pp. 8.5" x 10". Paper.
Main focus is German 20th century blackletter types
including those by Rudolf Koch, ER Weiss, Ernst
Schneidler, Imre Reeiner, Georg Trump, Paul Renner, Herbert Post, Hermann Zapf, Walter Tiemann, FH Ernst, Fridrich Poppl and others. There is a chapter on Dutch and American Designs as well. Full of examples; many are full alphabets.
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B2767. Helmut Salden
Helmut Salden.
2003. 9"x11.5". 192pp. Hardcover
This beautifully produced book presents the work of Helmut Salden, a 20th century Dutch lettering artist and book designer. It includes book covers & dust jackets many with hand lettering (1933-1976), book typography, and monograms. Full-color throughout. Cloth binding with dust jacket, ribbon marker. Text in Dutch, but it’s a visual feast.
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B2430. Calligraphic Type Design Digital Age
Calligraphic Type Design in the Digital Age: An Exhibition in Honor of the Contributions of Hermann & Gudrun Zapf.
Edited by John Prestianni. 2001. 204pp. 8.5"x11". Hardcover. Retail Price $49.95.
While supplies last. This is the catalog to the exhibition which also features the work of 14 other calligrapher/type designers who have been influenced by the Zapfs’ work including: Robert Slimbach, Alan Blackman, Rick Cusick, Jean Evans, Jacqueline Sakwa, Phill Grimshaw, Akira
Kobayashi, Jovica Veljovic,Viktor Solt, Julian Waters, & Richard Lipton. 100 color / 90 black & while illus.
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CD09. World of Alphabets (Zapf, Hermann)
CD-ROM. The World of Alphabets: A Kaleidoscope of Drawings and Letterforms.
200 color digital reproductions of works spanning the past 60 years of Zapf 's career. Selected typeface sketches, calligraphic exemplars, broadside layouts, book designs and previously unpublished pieces from Zapf 's personal archive. For PC or MAC OS9.
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B2665. American Type Design
American Type Design and Designers
By David Consuegra. 2004. 320pp. 8.75"x11.25". Paper.
Chronicles the history of type in America through the typefaces and biographies of 62 of the most influentual type designers. With coverage of 334 typefaces, complete with samples from both obscure and known publications, this reference reveals the contriubiton America has made to the world of type by Linn Boyd Benton, Morris Fuller Benton, Washington Ludlow, and other legendary designers. The most comprehensive book ever complied about American type and it designers. Provides a history of nine American type foundaries and a timeline of typerelated events from 1600 to 2001.
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B2818. Anatomy of a Typeface/Lawson
Anatomy of a Typeface
By Alexander Lawson. 2002. 320pp. Paper.
Alexandar Lawson was one of my type professors at RIT. He was a seemingly endless store of knowledge on typefaces. This book, written for the lay person, is a great and thorough introduction to type and historical typefaces.
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B2919. Alphabet/Haley
B2919. Alphabet: the History Evolution and Design of the Letters We Use Today by Allan Halely.
1995. 128pp. 9x9. Paper.
For each letter Haley presents the origin of the form and the structure of letter. Each is illustrated with examples from typefaces. Includes a system of type classification and a glossery of type terms.
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