Modern Typography: An Essay in Critical HistoryModern Typography, 2nd Edition is a completely updated and revised edition of Robin Kinross's classic survey of European and North American typography since 1700, first published in 1992. In addition to numerous new illustrations and revised text, Modern Typography has been re-scaled to a new, convenient pocket format. Kinross's overview breaks ground by focusing on the history of typography as an intricate web of social, technical, and material processes, rather than a parade of typeface styles. Eye magazine calls Modern Typography the book that tells "how modern typography got to be the way it is." Together, Kinross's clear, concise writing combined with his extensive knowledge of the history of typography create a gold standard for how design history ought to be written. |
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Page 91
... blackletter was to be modern , and , especially after 1918 , to prefer sanserif roman letters to those with serifs was to be more modern still . The issue of national character intersected with but did not always confirm this polarity ...
... blackletter was to be modern , and , especially after 1918 , to prefer sanserif roman letters to those with serifs was to be more modern still . The issue of national character intersected with but did not always confirm this polarity ...
Page 94
... blackletter . Koch was most deeply occupied by blackletter and did in superficial respects paral- lel the nationalist exploitation of these forms , but his religion and his spirit of ' making it new ' removed his work from any taint of ...
... blackletter . Koch was most deeply occupied by blackletter and did in superficial respects paral- lel the nationalist exploitation of these forms , but his religion and his spirit of ' making it new ' removed his work from any taint of ...
Page 121
... ( blackletter ) was something that informed the design of every newspaper and every shop sign . The temperature of the debate had been raised by modernists with their advocacy of sanserif , and criticism of blackletter ( as nationalist ...
... ( blackletter ) was something that informed the design of every newspaper and every shop sign . The temperature of the debate had been raised by modernists with their advocacy of sanserif , and criticism of blackletter ( as nationalist ...
Contents
Preface acknowledgements | 8 |
Modern typography | 13 |
Enlightenment origins | 22 |
Copyright | |
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