a| 9783899554496

a| Howest

a| 684.3 2| vsiso

a| Middendorp, Jan, d| 1956- 0| (viaf)56834266

a| Hand to type : b| scripts, hand-lettering and calligraphy. / c| Jan Middendorp.

a| Berlin : b| Gestalten, c| 2012.

a| 237 p. : b| ill.

a| 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.

b| HWPNT c| PENTA j| PENTA.684.3 MIDD 12 p| 3014814

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