Anatomy of a Typeface: A Comprehensive Survey of 30 Type Families Tracing Their Forms, History And Development Over the Last Five Centuries

An Analysis Of Letter Forms, From Garamond And Bembo To The Design And Manufacture Of Sans-serif And Newspaper Type. Tracing the forms, history and development of various typefaces since the development of printing in 1452, this analysis of letter form explores the vast territory of typefaces, their uses and their antecedents, from Garamond and Bembo, to the design of sans-serif letters and newspaper types. A survey of type faces which assesses their development from Gothic black letter to photo-composition and computer-generated forms. The book divides the faces into families and traces contemporary faces like Galliard and Janson back to their ancestors.