Letter Fountain

Letter Fountain

<div id="description_text_headlines" class="margin-bottom"><strong>The anatomy of letters: Everything you could ever want to know about printing letters and numbers</strong></div> <div class="margin-bottom"> </div> <div class="description_text"> <div id="description_text" class="margin-bottom">Now available at a bargain student price, <em>Letter Fountain</em> is the <strong>ultimate typeface handbook</strong>.<br /><br />In addition to examining the form and anatomy of every letter in the alphabet, punctuation marks, and special characters, the book examines over <strong>150 typefaces</strong>, their origins and font characteristics, with full page tables including scale, weight, and useful alternatives.<br /><br />Cross-references allow these typefaces to exist in a <strong>broader visual culture context</strong>, comparing important designs with <strong>seminal artpieces and movements</strong> from Gutenberg’s era to the aesthetics of the digital age.<br /><br />With special attention to finding the right typeface for a given job, the handbook also includes a <strong>manual for developing digital fonts</strong>, advice on typographic rules, an in-depth comparison between sans-serif and serif typefaces, and an essay about measuring systems and indications. The extensive appendix contains a general index, a typeface index, an index of over 250 type designers, an exhaustive index of type foundries, a graphical dictionary, and a bibliography for further reading.<br /><br />This book received a <strong>Certificate for Typographic Excellence from Type Directors Club New York</strong> (TDC) in 2010, and a <strong>red-dot design award</strong> from the Design Zentrum Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.</div> </div>