Fine Print on Type The Best of Fine Print Magazine on Type and Typography

This collection of essays on type design & typography, written by some of the foremost designers & scholars in the field, will appeal to those who use study & love type - from advertising designers to desktop publishers, from research bibliographers to just plain discerning readers, all of whom have observed & been fascinated by the way TYPE, apparently a neutral conveyor, can radically affect the meaning & impact of the message. Fine Print magazine has regularly published a series of articles under the title "On Type," exploring the history & development of type design from its scribal roots to the best in digital type for the new electronic media. This anthology makes for a stimulating & instructive mix of the aesthetic & the technical, the traditional & the avant-garde. Types covered include the up-to-date & quotation like ITC Zapf Chancery, Galliard & Iridium, as well as little-known but interesting historical faces like Fleischmann Antiqua, Hiero-Rhode Italic & Hammer uncials to the "bit wizards" of our own time like Kris Holmes, Sumner Stone & Adrian Frutiger. Pro Arte Libri, P.O. Box 193397, San Francisco, CA 94119-3397. e-mail: wordpusher@aol.com. $25.00 plus $3.50 shipping. 30% discount on 3 or more copies.Bigelow, Charles is the author of 'Fine Print on Type The Best of Fine Print Magazine on Type and Typography' with ISBN 9780960729029 and ISBN 096072902X.