The Art & Practice of Typography: A Manual of American Printing, Including a Brief History up to the Twentieth Century, with Reproductions of the Work of Early Masters of the Craft, and a Practical Discussion and an Extensive Demonstration of the Modern Use of Type-faces and Methods of Arrangement — John Shaqi
The Art & Practice of Typography: A Manual of American Printing, Including a Brief History up to the Twentieth Century, with Reproductions of the Work of Early Masters of the Craft, and a Practical Discussion and an Extensive Demonstration of the Modern Use of Type-faces and Methods of ArrangementGress, Edmund G. (Edmund Geiger)
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The Art & Practice of Typography: A Manual of American Printing, Including a Brief History up to the Twentieth Century, with Reproductions of the Work of Early Masters of the Craft, and a Practical Discussion and an Extensive Demonstration of the Modern Use of Type-faces and Methods of Arrangement
Gress, Edmund G. (Edmund Geiger)
Advertising layout and typography -- United States; Graphic design (Typography) -- United States; Printing -- United States -- History
Distinctive lettering and typography, 436
Interpolated paragraphs in italic, 437
A house-organ in miniature, 438
Another on the same plan, 439
Attractive rule treatment of headings, 440
Contents outlined on cover, 441
Simple, effective typography, 442
Dark-toned typography, 443
Suitable treatment for silverware, 444
Rubricated typography on a house-organ, 445, 446
Easily read and pleasingly illustrated, 447
A typographic house-organ, 448
Editorial page typographically neat, 449
Attractive use of rules and italic, 450
Elaborate house-organ title-page, 451
A page in Cloister type, 452
Use of paragraph marks, 453
Good specimen of house-organ cover, 454
Blank space used to good advantage, 455
Cover of the “Philistine,” 456
An “almanack” feature, 457
Bodoni typography, 458
Cover of a small house-organ, 459
Suggestions for return post cards, 460, 461, 462
TYPE-FACES
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Comparison of the same type forms on two finishes of paper, 463
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Roman alphabet from Trajan column, 464-A
Proportions of Roman capitals, 464-B
Evolution of Roman lower-case, 465
Two standard legible type-faces, 466
Six standard representative Roman type-faces, 467
Types of Sweinheim and Pannartz, 468
Roman types of John and Wendelin of Spires, 469
Roman type-face of Nicholas Jenson, 470
Manuscript of the fifteenth century, 471
Type-face used by Paul Manutius, 472
Cloister Oldstyle as a Jenson title, 473
Type-face used by National Printing Office, 474
Comparison of old-styles, 475
Cheltenham Oldstyle in Plantin typography, 476
Type-faces used by Daniel Elzevir, 477
Roman types of Fournier, 478
Capital alphabet drawn by Moxon, 479
Moxon’s lower-case alphabet, 480
Moxon’s alphabets inked in and reduced, 479-A, 480-A
Earliest Caslon specimen sheet, 481
Two slightly different faces to Caslon fonts, 482
Baskerville types, 483
Possible descent of Scotch Roman, 484
A study in French Oldstyle, 485
Resetting in Bodoni Book, 486
Comparison of original Bodoni with present types, 487
Modern Roman of the nineteenth century in three tones, 488
Modern Roman as used on newspapers, 489
Optical changes by adding serifs, 491
Differences in serif construction, 492
Oldstyle changed to modern, 493
Modern changed to old-style, 494
Comparison of strokes, 495
Thick and thin strokes in the alphabet, 496
Serifs and stroke contrasts, 497
Vertical thick strokes, 498
Diagonal thick strokes, 499
Heavy strokes in the letter “O,” 500, 501
Letters with ascending and descending strokes, 502
Descending strokes long in lettering, 503
Cramped descenders and compressed ends, 504
Descending and ascending numerals, 505
The space between words in good lettering, 506
Lower-case letters grouped according to formation, 507
Legibility and other qualities, 508
Sizes of type set to proper lengths, 509
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