A topic within Typography, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Design.
2 works
John Southward
Sets out a working classification and description of the printing types, papers and processes a compositor deals with daily, aimed at teaching the trade through its ordinary practice rather than its history.
Theodore Low De Vinne
Sets out a practical system for naming and classifying printing types — old style, modern, black-letter and their variants — arguing that accurate type specification depends on settled, shared terminology rather than a printer's private taste.
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