Typologia: Studies in Type Design and Type Making

by Frederic W. Goudy

Book Overview

Typologia presents more or less graphically Frederic Goudy's work in type design and describes his own methods of type production. His remarks on type legibility and fine printing, as presented in the body of the book, present the conclusions of a craftsman intensely interested in every phase of typography. The book itself, which Goudy was asked by the University of California Press to write, plan, and supervise, has been set in a type designed by...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520032780
• ISBN13: 9780520032781
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.3"