Partial contents: Machine generated contents note: Blackletter c.1455 -- First roman type c.1470 -- `The Aldine italic' 1501 -- Garamond c. 1532 -- Granjon's Double Pica Roman & Italic 1570-71 -- Romain du Roi 1690-1745 -- Caslon 1725 -- Baskerville 1757 -- Didot 1784 -- Bodoni late 1780s -- Walbaum c.1803 -- The first `fat face' 1803 -- The first Egyptians (slab serifs) 1810 -- The first sans serifs c.1816 -- Pouchee decorative alphabets c.1823 -- Wood types - condensed grotesques 1828-c.1900 -- The first typewriter 1868 -- Stencil-Gothic/Stencil c.1885 -- Akzidenz Grotesk (Standard) 1896-9 -- Cheltenham 1896/1903 -- Franklin Gothic Condensed 1903-14 -- Johnston Sans 1918 -- Cooper Black 1921 -- DIN 1451 1923 -- Ionic no. 5 and the `Legibility' group of typefaces 1925-6 -- Futura 1927 -- Gill Sans 1928 -- Times New Roman (aka Times Roman) 1932 -- Albertus 1932-40 -- Peignot 1937 -- Playbill 1938 -- Mistral 1953 -- Helvetica 1957 -- Univers 1952-60 -- Transport 1957-63 -- Antique Olive 1960 --

ISBN:

9781840916294184091629X

Dewey class:

686.2247686.224

Language:

English

Added title:

50 typefaces that changed the world

Subject:

Type and type-foundingType and type-founding -- History

BRN:

32738