Palatino

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Palatino

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Author : Robert Bringhurst
language : en
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Release Date : 2016

Palatino written by Robert Bringhurst and has been published by David R. Godine Publisher this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Design categories.

Hermann Zapf was one of the great practitioners of the graphic arts. As a book designer, type designer, an advocate, a teacher and above all, as a calligrapher, the world has seldom seen his equal. To do his achievement justice, author Robert Bringhurst takes as his theme Palatino, probably the most widely known and used of all Hermann Zapf faces. Mr. Bringhurst traces its development, with all its infinite permutations, and often invisible refinements through a long and fascinating history of variations and permutations, imitations and conflations--from hot metal, through the brief interlude of film setting and finally into the digital world. It is all here, in encompassing detail: a fully illustrated account of Palatino and its extended family: foundry and Linotype, Michelangelo, Sistina, Aldus, Heraklit, Phidias, Zapf Renaissance, PostScript Palatino, Palatino and Aldus Nova, and Palatino Sans. Included with the text are over 200 illustrations of design sketches, working drawings, smoke proofs and test prints, matrices, foundry and Linotype patterns. But beyond that, the book is an argument that artists who create letters can, and should, be judged by the same standards and held in the same esteem as composers who write music and artists who paint on canvas. Bringhurst asks the question, "Can a penstroke or a letterform be so beautiful it will stop you in your tracks and maybe break your heart?" In this groundbreaking and totally original book, he answers the question: "It can."