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Steven Heller and Anne Fink Designed by Michael Ian Kaye Faces on the Edge Type in the Digital Age More than any other graphic medium, todays fontography mirrors the traditions, eccentricities, and trends of modern society. Faces on the Edge, by prominent art director and author Steven Heller, is a spellbinding survey of the revolutionary effects of digital type design on 20th-century typography. More than 200 typefaces, from the classically inspired to the exuberantly (near) illegible, are featured in this compilation, illustrating how new technologies have dramatically increased the possibilities of type design. Included are typefaces from many of the worlds most innovative type foundries, such as Emigre Fonts, FontShop International, Garage Fonts, Thirst Fonts, Exploding Fonts, and T-26, and represents some of the finest type designers such as Zuzana Licko, Rudy VanderLans, Jonathan Hoefler, Tobias Frere-Jones, Ed Fella, and Barry Deck. The Typefaces are Organized into Six Kinds of Rebirths and Revivals Greeking Roman Digital Carvings Off the Wall Optical Delusions Lots O Laffs Typefaces are identified by date, designer, and foundry; a brief description text places each in t

Author

Heller, Steven, Anne, Fink, Fink, Anne

Publisher

New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780471287612

Subjects

Technology, Reference