Main entry:

Sutton, James, 1929-

Title & Author:

Typefaces for books / James Sutton & Alan Bartram.

Publication:

New York : New Amsterdam Books, 1990.

Description:

288 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Notes:
Specmines of Monotypes include: Albertina; Apollo; Baskerville (and Linotype Baskerville No 2); Bell; Bembo; Berkeley Old Style (and Linotype version); Bodoni (and Linotype version); Calisto; Calvert; Century Schoolbook; Clarion; Ehrhardt; Ellington; Fournier; Franklin Gothic (and Linotype version); Futura; Galliard; Garamond; Garamond (Simoncini) (and Linotype version); Gills Sans (and Linotype version); Goudy Old Style (and Linotype version); Grotesque (and Linotype version); Helvetica; Horley Old Style; Imprint; Ionic; Italian Old Style; Janson; Joanna; Melior; Meridiaen (and Linotype version); Modern Extended; Modern Wide; Octavian; Old Style; Optima (and Linotype version); Palatino; Perpetua (and Linotype version); Photina; Plantin; Plantin Light; Poliphilus; Rockwell (and Linotype version); Sabon; Scotch Roman; Spectrum; Times; Trump Medieval; Univers; Van Dijck; Walbaum; Zapf International (and Linotype version).
Specimens of Linotype include: Akzidenz-Grotesk; Aldus; Basilia Haas; Baskerville; Bembo; Berling; Bauer Bodoni; Breughel; Caledonia (and Monotype version); Cartier; Caslon; Century Expanded; New Century Schoolbook; Concorde; Egyptian; Ehrhardt; Fournier; Futura; Galliard; Garamond (Stempel) (and Monotype version); Glypha; Granjon; Guardi; Neue Helvetica; Imprint; Iridium; Janson; Janson Text; Joanna; Kennerley; Lectura; Melior; Old Style S; Orion; Palatino; Pegasus; Pilgrim; Plantin; Plantin Light; Rotation; Sabon; Scotch; Serifa (and Monotype version); Stempel Schadow; Times; Trump Medieval Univers; Versailles; Video; Walbaum; Linotype Walbaum.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- The technical background -- The historical background -- The type families -- Book making -- Specimen settings -- Points of style -- Copyfitting -- Rules, signs and symbols.

Summary:

"This is a much-needed book serving the practical requirement of all those who are involved in specifying type for books. More than 100 current Monotype and Linotype digitised typefaces are displayed in double-page specimen settings, in several different sizes and spacings, showing also display sizes, bold, roman, italic, sloped roman, small caps and figures. These pages, together with casting-off tables, will be essential reference material for any book designer. The authors also provide much information on the technical and visual development of typefaces, a comprehensive 'family tree' of types related to their historical models, and a long illustrated essay in which many examples of widely various typographic problems and their solutions (all of relevance to today's practiononers) are discussed."--Back cover

ISBN:

1561310166
9781561310166
1561310174 (pbk.)
9781561310173 (pbk.)

Subject:

Type and type-founding England Specimens.
Printing Specimens.
Typesetting.
Type and type-founding.
Caractères d'imprimerie.
Imprimerie Spécimens.
Caractères d'imprimerie Angleterre Spécimens.
Composition (Industries graphiques)
Printing.
England.

Form/genre:

Specimens.

Added entries:

Bartram, Alan, 1932-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 287174
Call No.: BIB 228040
Status: Available