Anatomy of Type

A topic within Typography, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Design.

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Book1908

The Alphabet: Fifteen Interpretive Designs of Letters

Frederic W. Goudy

Argues that a letter's form is never arbitrary but the outcome of the tool that cut it, and traces the historical alphabet through fifteen interpretive plates to make that structural logic visible.

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Book1916

Typographical Printing-Surfaces: The Technology and Mechanism of their Production

Lucien Alphonse Legros & John Cameron Grant

A technical survey of how metal type and other printing surfaces are actually manufactured, arguing that the anatomy and legibility of type cannot be separated from the mechanics of casting it.

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The Alphabet: Fifteen Interpretive Designs of Letters

Typographical Printing-Surfaces: The Technology and Mechanism of their Production

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