Printer's Type in the Twentieth Century

Printer's Type in the Twentieth Century

Richard Southall

Oak Knoll Press

310 Delaware Street, New Castle, DE 19720-5038

1584561556 $59.95 1-800-996-2556 www.oakknoll.com

Written by Richard Southall, who has engaged in publishing about type and typography since the 1960s, Printer's Type in the Twentieth Century: Manufacturing and Design Methods is a scholarly examination the past hundred years on the industry of type manufacture. In the last years of the nineteenth century, type manufacture transformed from an individualized craft to an industrial process, and complex mechanical systems to create text quickly arose into being. Yet a century later, with the advent of laser printers and image-setters, type manufacture became a craft process once again, this time with computer displays and software taking the place of physical metal parts with letters stamped into them. Printer's Type in the Twentieth Century covers the evolution of everything from hand punch-cutting through hot metal to laser image-setting and the PostScript revolution, with numerous typeface samples to illustrate its points. Not content merely to recite events of modern history, Printer's Type in the Twentieth Century also offers theoretical views on the evolution of type and typography, as well as scholarly narration. A superb resource, history, and repository of vision for anyone with a keen interest in the type and typesetting fields.

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