Title: Printer's type in the twentieth century : manufacturing and design methods /
Authors: Southall, Richard.
Publisher: British Library ; Oak Knoll Press,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Type and type-founding History; Type and type-founding Digital techniques; Computer fonts.; Typesetting History; Phototypesetting.; Computerized typesetting.; Typesetting machines History; Printing History
Contents: Metal type -- Cutting type by hand -- Making designs for hand punchcutting -- Cutting type by machine -- Making designs for machine-cut type -- Hot-metal typesetting -- Fonts and typefaces in metal type -- Perpetua and Lutetia -- The photographic matrix -- Making type by photography -- Drawing characters for the Lumitype -- The design of Univers -- The search for speed -- Scanned-matrix photocomposition -- Fonts and typefaces in photomatrix manufacture -- Digital and numerical techniques -- Digital and numerical photocomposition -- Digital and numerical fonts -- Laser imagesetters and the Post-Script revolution -- The Stone typeface family -- Making type with programs -- Computer science and typography -- The Colorado typemaking project.