| Hand to Type: Scripts, Hand-Lettering and Calligraphy Contributor(s): Klanten, Robert (Editor), Middendorp, J. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3899554493 ISBN-13: 9783899554496 Publisher: Gestalten OUR PRICE: $49.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Design | Graphic Arts - Typography - Art | Techniques - Calligraphy |
| Dewey: 745.619 |
| LCCN: 2012536733 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 9.59" W x 12.02" (3.61 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Although, or perhaps because, most of us write less and less by hand, our fascination for handwritten letterforms is growing. Typeface designers who specialize in traditional, charming, or spectacular lettering with a handmade look have become role models for today's young typographers and graphic design students. Script fonts--digital type families based on handwriting--are among the most sought on the typography market today. Scripts from the past, be it 18th-century formal calligraphy or advertising headlines from the 1960s, are being digitized and turned into OpenType programming. The love of the hand-written look is nothing new. Even the oldest printed books pretended to be something unique and not a machine-made mass product. Hand to Type is a collection of some of the best work by today's lettering artists in the fields of hand-made and digital script forms. The book includes texts about outstanding designers and contains a series of expert chapters outlining the principles of script forms that may be lesser known to most western typographers--from the German S tterlin to Arabic and Asian scripts. Hand to Type also traces script fonts back to some of the earliest examples: hand-lettering as a sign of authenticity, or printing type made to look like formal writing. |