classic typefaces for contemporary graphic design

TAMYE RlGGS with James Grieshaber

Introduction 6

Acknowledgments .7

How to Use This Book 8

Typographic Timeline 10

Visual Font lndex 11

CONTENTS

Serif 12 Resources 238

Sans Serif 92 Glyph Reference 240

Display 208 Glossary 242

Script 230 Contributors 248

References 250

Credits 251

lndex 252

INDEX

accents 225

Adobe 65,131,227,240

Adobe Garamond 65

Adobe InDesign 240

Adobe Originals 213

Adobe Wood Type 213,225

advertising 75,187,237

De Aetna 2 1,65

Akzidenz-Grotesk 9,94-101,

135,167

Aldine 8

alignment 63

ALT key 240

American National Standards

Institute (ANSI) 221,223

American Type Founders (ATF)

25,33,47,61,73,81,137,

215,221

Antiqua 237

Antique 33

Antique Extended 213

Arabic 37

Arrighi da Vicenza,

Ludovico degli 43

art deco 215,217

art nouveau 217

ascenders 33

Avant Garde 103

Avant Garde 102-13,191

Avenir 114-17,145

bans 237

Barnhart Brothers

& Spindler 217

Bartlett Oldstyle 33

Baskerville 6,8,14-19

Baskerville, John 8,15,25,77

Bauer, Johann Christian 237

Bauer, Konrad 135

Bauersche GieISerei 135,145,201

Bauhaus 145,210-11

Bauhaus Movement 9,211

Baum, Walter 135

Bayer, Herbert 21 1

Bembo 6,20-23

Bembo, Pietro 21,65

Benguiat, Ed 33,103,211,235

Benton, Linn Boyd 47

Benton, Morris Fuller 25,47-

81,137,215

Berlow, David 137,165

Berner, Konrad E. 83

Berthold AG 95

Berthold, H. 95

Berthold Walbaum Book 91

Besley, Robert 53

bibliography 250

biforms 137

Black, Roger 165

Blackletter 237

Blackoak 6,212-13

Bodoni 8,15,24-31

Bodoni, Giambattista 25

bold 37,131,145,181

Bond, James 6

Bookman 32-35

books 15,75,87,159,187,227,237

bracketed serifs 8,53,77

British Monotype 15

broadsheets 87

Broadway 214-15

brochures 233

Bruce Type Foundry 33

Bureau Grot 165

Bureau Grotesque 9,165

Burke, Jackson 191

Butti, Alessandro 131

calligraphers 43,159,189

calligraphy 235

capitals 61,73,91,131,137,211,

215,225,227

Caravelle 135

Carnase, Tom 103

Caruso, Victor 137,211

Caslon 33,36-41

Caslon, William 1 15,37

cathode ray tube (CRT) 10

Centaur 42-45

The Centaur 43

Century 46-51

The Century Magazine 47

Century Roman 47

Century Schoolbook 47

Cezanne 6,232-33

Ckzanne, Paul 233

Cezanne Pro 233

Cezanne Sketches 233

Chansler, Kim Buker 225

Charles de Gaulle Airport 141

chromatic types 225

Clarendon 8,52-59

Clarendon Press 53

classifications 9

compact fonts 131

compressed fonts 137,191

computers 10,63,87,221,223,240

condensed fonts 131,137

contributors 248-49

CONTROL key 240

Cooper Black 73,216-19

Cooper Old Style 217

Cooper, Oswald Bruce 217

Copperplate 60-61

copperplate engraving 25,61

Copperplate Gothic 61

copperplate hand 235

copyright 6

Courier 62-63

Crossgrove, Car1 225

De Vinne, Theodore Low 47

Deberny & Peignot 201

Declaration of Independence 37

default fonts 63

descenders 33

designers 6,s-9,103,115,159,

181,187,189,201,221,225,

227,233,248-49

desktop publishing (DTP) 10

Deutsche Bundespost 181

Deutsches Institut fiir

Normung (DIN) 119

diacritics 8

Didone 8,25,91

Didot, Firmin 91

digital typefaces 8,10,15,37,63,

103,119,189,233,237,240

DIN 1 18-29

DIN Schrifien 119

dingbats 233

DiSpigna, Tony 103

display 11,53,119,131,135,

191,208-29

Dutch Old Style 37

Edwardian Script 234-35

Egyptian 8,53,81

Eidenbenz, Hermann 53

electric typewriters 63

Elsner+Flake 103

engraving 8,25,61,215

Entertainment Weekly 165

Erasmus, Desiderius 65

Estienne, Robert 65

European Computer

Manufacturers' Association

(ECMA) 223

Eurostile 9,130-33

Eurostile Next 131

expert-set characters 240

extended character sets 240

Fann Street Foundry 53

Felicity 77

Fette Fraktur 236-37

FF DIN 119

FF Meta 8,181

FF Metaplus 181

Folio 134-35

Font Bureau 137,165

font index 11

FontFont (FF) 8,119,181

FontShop 181

Fraktur 237

Francis I, King 65

Franklin, Benjamin 37

Franklin Gothic 136-39

French Impressionism 6,233

Froben 73

Frutiger 9,140-43

Frutiger, Adrian 63,115,141,

145,201,223

Futura 9,95,115,144-57,

159,201

Garalde 8,65,73,83,87

Garamond 6,21,64-71,83

Garamond, Claude 21,65,83

Garamond Premier 65

Garamond Premier Pro Bold

240

Geometric 9,115

German language 237

German Standard Committee

119

Gill, Eric 77,159

Gill Sans 9,158-63

Glypha 201

glyphic serifs 61

Gothic 9,61,137,165

Goudy 8,72-73

Goudy, Frederic W. 61,73,217

Goudy Heavyface 73,217

Goudy Old Style 73

Granjon, Robert 65,83

Grec du Roi 65

Greek 37,65

Grieshaber, James 233

Griffith, Chauncy H. 33

Griffo, Francesco 21,65

Grotesk 137

Grotesques 9,95,135,137,

164-65,167,191

GuCrin, Maurice de 43

Gutenberg, Johannes 7.3

Haas'sche SchriftgieiJerei 53, 167

handwriting 233,235

Handy, John 15

Hamard University Press 15

headlines 181,225

Heavyface Italic 73

Hebrew 37

Helvetica 6,9,135,166-79,

181,191

Heluetica 167

Hess, Sol 215

Hitler, Adolf 237

Hoffman, Eduard 53,167

Humanist 9,181

Hustwit, Gary 167

Hypnerotomachia Poliphili 21

IBM 63

in-use examples 9

Industrial Revolution 53

Inland Type Foundry 81

institutions 250

interior design 233

International Typeface

Corporation (ITC) 33,47,75,

103,137,187,211,235

Intertype 47

invitations 233

italics 21,33,43,47,65,73,75,

77,83,137,141,187,189

201,217

I TC Avant Garde 103

ITC Bauhaus 21 1

ITC Bookman 33

ITC Edwardian Script 235

ITC Franklin 137

ITC Officina Sans 187

ITC Officina Serif 187

Jan-Pool, Albert 119

Jannon, Jean 65

Jazz Age 215

Jenson, Nicolas 43

Johnston, Edward 159

Jones, George W. 15

kerning 191,223

Kettler, Howard "Bud" 63

key combinations 240-41

Kinross, Robin 18 1

Kobayashi,Akira 131,189,191

Kunstgewerbeschule 201

labels 233

Lange, Giinter Gerhard 91,95

Lanston Monotype 43,73,215

Lardent, Victor 87

Latin 8,37,167,237

layering 225

learning to read 47

ligatures 103,189,233

Linotype 15,33,47,83,131,141,

167,189,201

Litho Antique 81

London and North Eastern

Railway (LNER) 159

London Underground 159

lowercase 61,65,103,131,137,

211,215,227

Lubalin Graph 103

Lubalin, Herb 103

Modernist Movement 95

Moderns 8,15,25,91,159

Monotype 6,21,43,47,77,81,

83,87,159

Monotype Grotesque 165

Monotype Walbaum 91

Montague Press 43

Montaigne 43

Morison, Stanley 15,21,77,

87,159

multilingual typography 240

Old Styles 8,15,21,33,37,65,

73,83,87,217

OpenType 6,137,227,233,240

operating systems 63,87,240-41

optical character recognition

(OCR) 221,223

Optima 188-89

Optima Nova 189

organizations 250

oxidation 37

Machine Age 217

Macintosh Operating System

240-41

magazines 75,165,187

Malin, Charles 77

Manutius, Aldus 21,65

Marder, Clarence C. 61

mass production 53

Maximilian I, Emperor 237

Memphis 81

Mergenthaler Linotype 167,191

Meta 6,8,180-85

MetaDesign 181

metal type 10,37,83,165

Metropolitan Museum of Art 43

Microgramma 13 1

Microsofi 240

Middle Ages 237

Miedinger, Max 167

Miller and Richard Foundry 33

Nebiolo 13 1

Neo-Grotesque 9,167,201

Neorenaissance 47

Nesbitt, George 213

Neue Haas Grotesk 167

newspapers 87,135

Newsweek 165

Nicholas, Robin 43

Noordzij, Gerrit 119

Novarese, Aldo 131

numbering systems 61

oblique 145,201

OCR-A 220-21

OCR-B 222-23

Officina Sans 75,186-87

Officina Serif 74-75

Old Face 8

Old Style Antique 33

P22 233

packaging 233

Page, William 225

Paraphrasis in Elegantiarum Libros

Laurentii Vallae 65

The Passion of Perpetua and

Felicity 77

Peignot, Charles 201

Penguin Books 159

Perpetua 8,76-79

Perpetua Italic 77

Phemister, Alexander 33

Philadelphia Museum of Art 233

photocomposition 201

phototype 10,103,189

PhotoTypositor 103

Pierpont, Frank Hinman 81

Plantin Old Style Garalde 87

Plantin-Moretus 65

point size 91

Porch&, Jean-Franqois 83

posters 159,227

PT55 181

punchcutters 15,37,65,77,

91,189,237

punctuation 8

readability 15,23,47,223

Reale 8

Realist 8, 135,201

Redick, Joy 213

Renaissance 8

Renner, Paul 145

resources 238-39

Rockwell 8,80-81

Rogers, Bruce 15,43

roman 8-9,21,43,47,65,73,77:

83,141,189,201,227,237

Rosenberger, August 189

Rosewood 6,224-25

Rosewood Fill 225

Round Hand 235

Sabon 8,82-85

Sabon, Jacques 83

Sabon Next 83

Sabon Next Pro 240

samples 8-9

Sans Serif 9 ,1 l , 61,92-207

Santa Croce Basilica 189

Saunders, Patricia 43

Schafer, Ole 75,187

Schoffer, Peter the Younger 73

SchriftguiJ AG 217

script 11,230-37

Selectric Composer 63

Serif 8,ll-91,103,187,189

Serifa 201

signage 141,159

Slab Serif 8,53,63,81,213

Slimbach, Robert 65

small capitals 61,75,181,187,

189,227

Smithsonian Institution 213

s o h a r e 63

Spiekermann, Erik 75,119,

181,187

steel-point pens 235

Stempel 81,83,141,167,

189,237

Stempel, D. 237

Stephenson Blake 165

stonecutters 77

Stymie Bold 81

tabloids 87

Tagliente, Giovanni 21

Thompson, Bradbury 83

thought-unit method 83

timeline 10

Times 86-89

The Times 87

Times New Roman 87

Times Old Roman 87

titling 189

Trade Gothic 190-99

Trade Gothic Next 191

Trajan 6,226-29

Transitionals 8,77

Tschichold, Jan 83,159

Twombly, Carol 225,227

type foundries 248

type-naming convention 201

typeface names 8

typewriters 63,75,187

websites 248-50

Wiebking, Robert 43

Wild West 213

Windows Operating System

240-41

wood type 10

World War I1 237

Zapf, Hermann 189

unbracketed serifs 8,81

Univers 6,9,135,141,191,

200-207

Universal 21 1

uppercase 103,159

Venetians 8,21,65,73

Vergecio, Angelo 65

Walbaum 8,90-91

Walbaum, Justus Erich 91

Want, Michael233

Warde, Frederic 43

Washburn College Bible 83

wayfinding 141

Weber 237

Weber, C. E. 237