Scripts: Elegant Lettering from Design's Golden Age

by Louise Fili and Steven Heller

Book Overview

Filled with examples from a broad spectrum of sources - advertising, street signs, invitations, type-specimen books, personal letters - this collection will be a delight for designers and an invaluable sourcebook of long-overlooked lettering. From wedding announcements to IOUs, there are hundreds - perhaps thousands - of scripts, some 'classic', others eccentric. Whether elegant, quirky, fluid, brutish or ostentatious, these typefaces are stylized...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500290393
• ISBN13: 9780500290392
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.9" x 9.7"