California type designers : featuring fourteen designers and eighteen typefaces : with quotations from classic California literature and memoir /
Kelsey, Matthew,1961-editor,writer of foreword,book designer.
Book Club of California,issuing body.
Camino Press (Saratoga, Calif.),book designer.
Arion Press,printer.
Mohawk Fine Papers, Inc.,papermaker.
Crown Flexo,platemaker.
Title from portfolio.
"Designed by Matthew Kelsey at Camino Press, Saratoga, California, and letterpress printed at Arion Press in San Francisco on a Miller two-color cylinder press. The text paper is Accent Opaque, and the cover paper is Mohawk Renewal Straw, made with 30% straw fiber. Plates made by Crown Flexo"--Colophon.
Foreword / by Matthew Kelsey -- A personal view of California type design / by Christopher Slye -- 1. Lucida Sans Italic and Lucida Calligraphy: Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes -- 2. Chron Electric and Chron Metro: Jim Parkinson -- 3. Parkinson and Sutro: Jim Parkinson -- 4. Eidetic Modern and Eidetic Neo: Rod Cavazos -- 5. MVB Verdigris: Mark van Bronkhorst -- 6. Beorcana: Carl Crossgrove -- 7. Harmonia Sans: Jim Wasco -- 8. Source Serif: Frank Grießhammer -- 9. Roslindale: David Jonathan Ross -- 10. Obviously: James Edmondson -- 11. Redaction: Jeremy Mickel --12. Emerging California type designers. Chimera: Maria Doreuli ; Prospectus: Dave Bailey ; Ricochet: Sun Helen Isdahl Kalvenes.
Type designers
Type and type-founding