Compendium for Literates

by Karl Gerstner

Karl Gerstner is one of Switzerland's-and therefore the world's-best and best-known graphic and typographic designers. His high ambition in this book, first published in German in 1972, is to provide a complete and systematic taxonomy of writing, a programmed investigation into the underlying structure of script and type; Gerstner writes that his book is meant to "encompass the aspects and possibilities of the alphabet in their totality." It is this...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262070618
• ISBN13: 9780262070614
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.