"To the layman, all printing types look the same. But for typographers, graphic artists and others of that lunatic fringe who believe that the letters we look a

"Typeface: Classic Typography for Contemporary Design is a unique sourcebook featuring forty-six classic typefaces that continue to resonate with today's most i

-Features Japanese style typeface works from design masters, such as Ryuta Ishikawa, Takahashi Yoshiharu, Toshiyasu Nanbu and Shinnoske Sugisaki. Each stringent

Typographer, translator, cultural historian, poet, and linguist Robert Bringhurst presents a taxonomic study of the many iterations of the typeface Herman Zapf'

More than a hundred currently available filmset typefaces are presented here in large-format, double-page specimen settings, in various sizings and spacings.