num_pages: 352
description: From wedding announcements to IOUs there are hundreds perhaps thousands of scriptssome classic others eccentric. Derived from handwriting these are typefaces that are stylized to suggest imply or symbolize certain traits linked to writing. Their fundamental characteristic is that all the letters more or less touch each other.Scripts tend to fall in and out of fashion but they are most definitely part of the typographic landscape today and the more curious and distinctive they are the better. Drawn from the Golden Age of Scripts from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century this is the first compilation of popular rare and forgotten scripts from the United States Germany France England and Italy.Filled with examples from a broad spectrum of sourcesadvertising street signs invitations type-specimen books personal lettersthe book is a delightful and invaluable trove of long-overlooked material.
language: English
title: Scripts: Elegant Lettering from Design's Golden Age
publisher: Thames & Hudson