Rookledge's Classic International Typefinder

Gordon Rookledge, Christopher Perfect

280 pages, parution le 07/02/2005

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Résumé

This classic book, first published in 1983 and updated in 1990, helps designers to recognize and identify typefaces seen and used on an everyday basis, and also provides assistance with the process of typeface selection. It highlights the essential characteristics of over 700 typeface specimens, all fully cross-referenced to a comprehensive index.Typefaces are grouped according to specific design features and the typefinding process is by visual inspection and elimination. 'Earmark' or letter feature tables offer an alternative but companion method of identifying text typefaces, illustrating the more distinctive and unusual identifying features of letters. Each category of typeface is prefaced with an introduction by Phil Baines examining its historical background. The book also contains an eight-page section of fifty brief biographies of leading type designers.

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Text typefaces
- Sloping e-bar (Venetian serif)
- Angled stress/oblique serifs (old style serif)
- Vertical stress/oblique serifs (transitional serif)
- Vertical stress/straight serifs (new transitional serif)
- Abrupt contrast/straight serifs (modern serif)
- Slab serif
- Wedge serif (hybrid serif)
- Sans Serif
Decorative (non-continuous text) typefaces
- Flowing scripts
- Non-flowing scripts (including blackletter & uncial)
- Unmodified (formal text shape)
- Fat & thin face (modified & unmodified)
- Ornamental
- Modified serif
- Modified sans serif
- Modified outrageous
- App. 1 Typefinder classification system/British standards classification
- App. 2 Biographical notes on leading type designers by Sarah Rookledge

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Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Laurence King
Auteur(s)	Gordon Rookledge, Christopher Perfect
Parution	07/02/2005
Nb. de pages	280
Format	24 x 24
Couverture	Broché
Poids	1305g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9781856694063
ISBN13	978-1-85669-406-3