FROM GUTENBERG TO OPENTYPE: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF TYPE FROM THE EARLIEST LETTERFORMS TO THE LATEST DIGITAL...
Publisher: ILEX
Published: 2006-06-01
Place of publication: LONDON
Language: und; eng
Number of pages: 192
Description: Draws together the development of type and type design from its inception to the present day. Examines the influences that prompted men of letters to apply their minds to mechanical writing and how printing and type production was adopted as a craft, a trade and later as an industry.