The essential handbook of typeface recognition and selection.
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Christopher Perfect runs the Perfect Design Company Limited. Gordon Rookledge is the Founder and Managing Director of Sarema Press (Publishers) Limited. Phil Baines is a freelance designer and Senior Lecturer at Central Saint Martin's College of Art & Design.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Only slightly better?,
This review is from: Rookledge's Classic International Typefinder (Paperback)
I purchased the 1st ed. of this book years ago. I still find it invaluable. I thought the reprint would find more content and an updated design. While there is slightly more content, I think that the poor quality sample typography scans (assumedly from the original book) cause me to wonder if I should just keep using my original edition. It appears that even the linework and sample names have been rescanned.I do like the updated cover design, front matter and dividers. I also enjoyed the preface by Frutiger, but I really wish more time had been spent with newly set samples.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Outstanding educational and professional tool,
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This review is from: Rookledge's Classic International Typefinder (Paperback)
As a graphic designer working with fonts all day every day, I have a library of several hundred reference books about type. I use Rookledge's more than all the others put together. The authors have devised a method of classifying fonts that facilitates two important tasks: First, identifying a font from an incomplete sample. Rookledge's shows you at a glance which characters are unique to a given font. Second: choosing a font that has the right "feel" or emotional content for a particular text.A third thing to love about this book: the authors don't waste page space on stupid fonts. With somewhere in excess of 20,000 fonts in circulation now, there are still just a few dozen timeless classics and a few hundred more that are worthy of serious study. There are a few that I would like to have seen included that aren't, but precious few. Anyone working to push the printed word to the limits of its expressive power will find this book invaluable.
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good book,
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This review is from: Rookledge's Classic International Typefinder (Paperback)
There are a lot of typefaces in this book, and they're arranged nicely so they can be found easily. I particularly liked that letters that had specific and unusual characteristics were starred. I have used it a great deal.
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THIS PART OF the book contains typefaces which are commonly used for continuous text setting. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
special earmarks, typeface specimens, continuous text setting, typical identifying features, ascender serif, distinctive identifying features, oblique serifs, wedge serif, height serif, abcdefghij klmnopgrstuvwxyz, foot serif, typeface categories, centre strokes, nopq rstuvwxyz, same earmark, sloping bar, one typeface, specimen numbers, slab serif, thin strokes, text typefaces, specific design features, vertical stress, abrupt contrast, heavy appearance Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bauer Bodoni, Century Schoolbook, Times Roman, Gill Sans, Franklin Gothic, Antique Olive, Lubalin Graph, American Typewriter, News Gothic, Akzidenz Grotesk, Century Expanded, Haas Unica, Cooper Black, Engravers Roman, Avant Garde Gothic, Stencil Bold, Stymie Hairline, Zapf Book, Block Gothic, Goudy Catalogue, Scotch Roman, Serif Gothic, Trump Mediaeval, Van Dijck, Venetian Serif New!
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THIS PART OF the book contains typefaces which are commonly used for continuous text setting. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
special earmarks, typeface specimens, continuous text setting, typical identifying features, ascender serif, distinctive identifying features, oblique serifs, wedge serif, height serif, abcdefghij klmnopgrstuvwxyz, foot serif, typeface categories, centre strokes, nopq rstuvwxyz, same earmark, sloping bar, one typeface, specimen numbers, slab serif, thin strokes, text typefaces, specific design features, vertical stress, abrupt contrast, heavy appearance Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bauer Bodoni, Century Schoolbook, Times Roman, Gill Sans, Franklin Gothic, Antique Olive, Lubalin Graph, American Typewriter, News Gothic, Akzidenz Grotesk, Century Expanded, Haas Unica, Cooper Black, Engravers Roman, Avant Garde Gothic, Stencil Bold, Stymie Hairline, Zapf Book, Block Gothic, Goudy Catalogue, Scotch Roman, Serif Gothic, Trump Mediaeval, Van Dijck, Venetian Serif New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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