Type 1 Digital Typeface Design
On sale
1st May 2002
Price: £25
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Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781856692700
Access to digital typography has given more people the tools to develop alternative forms of visual language and thousands of digital fonts now exist. Type 1 collects together the best digital typefaces from around the world, providing an invaluable and unique visual resource in design and research for typographers and graphic designers.
The book is divided into sections based on typographic styles: Modular, Line, Graphic, Bitmapped, Dirty, Text, Stencil, Calligraphic. Short descriptions of each typeface include information on the inspiration behind the design, along with the name of the
designer and a contact address.
Accompanying the book is a CD containing eight free fonts (one to represent each section of the book) specially commissioned from selected typeface designers. Contributing typeface designers and foundries include Club-21, T-26, eBoy, Alexander Gelman, [+ism], ACME, Lineto, Neville Brody, Tom Hingston, Tim Fletcher, Swifty, Jeremy Tankard, Alias, The Font Bureau, Agfa Monotype, Extra, Thirstype, Beaufonts, Ben Drury, Hideki Inaba, Optimo, Buro Destruct, Fontshop International.
The book is divided into sections based on typographic styles: Modular, Line, Graphic, Bitmapped, Dirty, Text, Stencil, Calligraphic. Short descriptions of each typeface include information on the inspiration behind the design, along with the name of the
designer and a contact address.
Accompanying the book is a CD containing eight free fonts (one to represent each section of the book) specially commissioned from selected typeface designers. Contributing typeface designers and foundries include Club-21, T-26, eBoy, Alexander Gelman, [+ism], ACME, Lineto, Neville Brody, Tom Hingston, Tim Fletcher, Swifty, Jeremy Tankard, Alias, The Font Bureau, Agfa Monotype, Extra, Thirstype, Beaufonts, Ben Drury, Hideki Inaba, Optimo, Buro Destruct, Fontshop International.
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