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Classic Fonts for the Digital Age

Steven Heller author Gail Anderson author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Thames & Hudson Ltd

Published:16th Feb '09

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

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A lively and lighthearted survey that looks at the role that old and classic fonts play in contemporary graphic design

A survey that looks at the role that old and classic fonts from letterpress to slab serifs and beyond play in graphic design.Here is a lively and lighthearted survey that looks at the role that old and classic fonts – from letterpress to slab serifs and beyond – play in contemporary graphic design.Written and compiled by the world’s leading graphic-design historian, the book provides hundreds of examples, as well as informed texts that will entertain, edify and inspire a new generation of students and practitioners to appreciate that the past contains typographic riches for the future.

ISBN: 9780500288184

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 1010g

192 pages