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Alphabet Farm Journal

 

WARP & WOOF:

HISTORY, CRAFT, CONCEPT & CULTURE,

A PERSONAL VIEW OF TYPE DESIGN

Lecture given at the Rare Book School

University of Virginia, June 18, 2008 (20 pages)

 

THE ESSENTIAL FORM

The W.A. Dwiggins Lecture 2007 (4 pages, pdf)

 

TRANSITIONS IN FORM THE PRE-SERIF LETTER

The ancestory of the sans serif form (1 page, pdf)

 

BOOK REVIEW

Richard Southall’s Twentieth Century Printer’s Type (1 page, pdf)

 

WEB DESIGN: USE ANY FONT

Plus a comment by Paul Novitski

Update by Sumner Stone (1 page, pdf)

 

 

 

In the darkness of typographical history even a feeble light such as that shed by the reminiscences of Nicholas Kis is a great help. harry carter, 1954

 

 

All articles are in PDF format.

© Copyright 2007 by Stone Type Foundry.

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