Rookledge's Classis International Typefinder

by Perfect, Christopher

• ISBN13: 9781856694063
• ISBN10: 1856694062
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-12-10
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

The essential handbook of typeface recognition and selection.

Table of Contents

Imprint and Acknowledgements to the first edition	4	(2)
Preface and Introduction to the first edition	6	(1)
Preface to this revised edition	7	(2)
Adrian Frutiger
Introduction to this revised edition	9	(3)
Part 1: Text typefaces
Explanation of Categories	12	(2)
Sloping e-Bar (Venetian Serif)	14	(10)
Angled Stress/Oblique Serifs (Old Style Serif)	24	(6)
Vertical Stress/Oblique Serifs (Transitional Serif)	30	(14)
Vertical Stress/Straight Serifs (New Transitional Serif)	44	(10)
Abrupt Contrast/Straight Serifs (Modern Serif)	54	(10)
Slab Serif	64	(8)
Wedge Serif (Hybrid Serif)	72	(8)
Sans Serif	80	(79)
`Earmark' Tables	97	(59)
Part 2: Decorative (non-continuous text) typefaces
Explanation of Categories	156	(3)
Flowing Scripts	159	(6)
Non-Flowing Scripts (including Blackletter & Uncial)	165	(16)
Unmodified (Formal Text Shape)	181	(14)
Fat & Thin Face (Modified & Unmodified)	195	(26)
Ornamental	221	(8)
Modified Serif	229	(10)
Modified Sans Serif	239	(18)
Modified Outrageous	257	(9)
Appendix 1: Typefinder classification system/British Standards Classification	266	(2)
Appendix 2: Biographical notes on leading type designers	268	(7)
Sarah Rookledge
Biography/Further reading	275	(1)
Index	276