This occasional, book-length work is edited and produced at the Department of Typography, University of Reading, and is now published by Hyphen Press. It publishes extended articles on its subject, exploring topics to the length to which they want to go. Its scope is broad and international, its treatment – serious and lively.
| availability | in print |
| published | 2007.08.09 |
| extent | 152 pp |
| dimensions | 297 × 210 mm |
| illustrations | b&w + colour pictures |
| binding | sewn paperback |
| ISBN | 0-907259-33-2 |
| ISBN13 | 978-0-907259-33-6 |
| £20.00 |
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- contents
Hendrik D. L. Vervliet:
The young Garamont: roman types made in Paris from 1530 to 1540
Justin Howes:
Extreme type: progress, ‘perfectibility’ and letter design in eighteenth-century Europe
Eric Kindel:
The ‘Plaque Découpée Universelle’: a geometric sanserif in 1870s Paris
Sue Walker:
Letterforms for handwriting and reading: print script and sanserifs in early twentieth-century England
Linda Reynolds:
The Graphic Information Research Unit: a pioneer of typographic research
Giovanni Lussu:
The form of language
