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About this book
Graphic designers will enrich their understanding of American type design and type designers with this unique and extensive reference. The fascinating history of type in America is chronicled through the typefaces and biographies of sixty-two of the most influential type designers, including Linn Boyd Benton, Morris Fuller Benton, and Darius Wells, and through the description and history of nine American type foundries. Complete with samples of 334 different typefaces, and 700 black-and-white illustrations, this eye-popping reference reveals the expansive contribution America has made to the world of type design.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chronology of Type-Related Events
- Comparative American/European Type Chronology
- Type Designs in Alphabetical Order
- Arnholm, Ronald (b.1939)
- Baker, Arthur
- Benguiat, Edward (b. 1927)
- Benton, Linn Boyd (1844-1932)
- Benton, Morris Fuller (1872-1948)
- Berlow, David (b.1954)
- Bernhard, Lucian (1883-1972)
- Bigelow, Charles (b.1945)
- Blumenthal, Joseph (1897-1990)
- Boge, Garrett (b.1951)
- Bradley, William (1869-1962)
- Bullen, Henry Lewis (1857-1938)
- Carnase, Tom (b.1939)
- Carter, Matthew (b.1937)
- Chappell, Warren (1904-1992)
- Cleland, Thomas M. (1880-1964)
- Cooper, Oswald Bruce (1879-1940)
- Craw, Freeman (b.1917)
- De Vinne, Theodore L. (1828-1914)
- DiSpigna, Tony (b.1943)
- Dwiggins, William A. (1880-1956)
- Frere-Jones, Tobias (b.l970)
- Goodhue, Bertram G. (1869 1924)
- Goudy, Frederic W. (1865 1947)
- Griffith, Chauncey H. (1879-1956)
- Hammer, Victor (1882-1967)
- Hess, Sol (1886-1953)
- Hoefler
- Holmes, Kris (b.1950)
- Huxley, Walter (1890-1955)
- Irvin, Rea (1881-1972)
- Isbell, Richard (b.1924)
- Kaufmann, Max Richard (b.1904)
- Klumpp, Emil J. (1912-1997)
- Lanston, Tolbert (1844-1913)
- Licko, Zuzana (b.1961)
- Lubalin, Herb (1918-1981)
- Ludlow, Washington I.
- Mergenthaler, Ottmar (1854-1899)
- Middleton, Robert Hunter (1898-1985)
- Minott, Louis
- Nadall, Berne (1869- )
- Page, William H. (1829-1906)
- Parker, Wadsworth A. (1864-1938)
- Phinney, Joseph W. (1848 1934)
- Pierpont, Frank H. (1860-1937)
- Powell, Gerry (1899-)
- Ransom, Will (1878-1955)
- Riley, Frank H. (1894-)
- Rogers, Albert Bruce (1870-1957)
- Ruzicka, Rudolph (1883-1978)
- Shaw, Paul (b. 1954)
- Slimbach, Robert (b.1956)
- Smith, Robert (b.1910)
- Stone, Sumner (b.1945)
- Thompson, Bradbury (1911-1955)
- Trafton, Howard A. (1897-1964)
- Twombly, Carol (b.1959)
- Updike, Daniel Berkeley (1860-1941)
- Warde, Frederic (1894-1939)
- Wells, Darius (1800-1875)
- Wiebking, Robert (1870-1927)
- Type Foundries
- American Type Founders
- International Typeface Corporation
- Letraset Corporation
- Linotype Company
- Ludlow Typograph Company
- Monotype Company
- Photo-Lettering, Inc
- Glossary of Typographical Terms
- Bibliography
- Index