California type designers
Subtitle: featuring fourteen designers and eighteen typefaces : with quotations from classic California literature and memoir
By: edited by Matthew Kelsey
Contributors: Book Club of California; Camino Press (Saratoga, Calif.); Arion Press; Mohawk Fine Papers, Inc; Crown Flexo
Series: The Book Club of California 2020 keepsake; Keepsake series (Book Club of California) -- 2020.
Publisher: The Book Club of California
Published: 2020
Place of publication: San Francisco, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 13
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: Type designers; Biography; Type and type-founding; Specimens; In literature; Literature
Notes: "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.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by Matthew Kelsey; title: A personal view of California type design / by Christopher Slye; title: 1. Lucida Sans Italic and Lucida Calligraphy: Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes; title: 2. Chron Electric and Chron Metro: Jim Parkinson; title: 3. Parkinson and Sutro: Jim Parkinson; title: 4. Eidetic Modern and Eidetic Neo: Rod Cavazos; title: 5. MVB Verdigris: Mark van Bronkhorst; title: 6. Beorcana: Carl Crossgrove; title: 7. Harmonia Sans: Jim Wasco; title: 8. Source Serif: Frank Grießhammer; title: 9. Roslindale: David Jonathan Ross; title: 10. Obviously: James Edmondson; title: 11. Redaction: Jeremy Mickel; title: 12. Emerging California type designers. Chimera: Maria Doreuli ; Prospectus: Dave Bailey ; Ricochet: Sun Helen Isdahl Kalvenes.