Scripts: Elegant Lettering from Design's Golden Age

Scripts: Elegant Lettering from Design's Golden Age
- Used Book in Good Condition
â€œFor a type nerd, the only thing missing from Scripts is a centerfold of voluptuous Spencerian. . . . About ninety percent of the book is images, glorious images.â€ â€•Communication Arts
Seen in everything from wedding invitations and birth announcements to IOUs, menus, and diplomas, script typefaces impart elegance and sophistication to a broad variety of texts. Scripts never go out of style, and the hundreds of inventive examples here are sure to inspire todayâ€™s designers. Derived from handwriting, these are typefaces that are stylized to suggest, imply, or symbolize certain traits linked to writing. Their fundamental characteristic is that all the letters, more or less, touch those before and after. Drawn from the Golden Age of scripts, from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, this is the first compilation of popular, rare, and forgotten scripts from the United States, Germany, France, England, and Italy. Featuring examples from a vast spectrum of sourcesâ€•advertisements, street signs, type-specimen books, and personal lettersâ€•this book is a delightful and invaluable trove of longoverlooked material. 275 illustrations, 254 in color
Country USA
Brand Brand: Thames Hudson
Manufacturer Thames & Hudson
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780500290392
ReleaseDate 2012-11-12
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780500290392

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