TY  - BOOK
AU  - Meggs,Philip B.
AU  - McKelvey,Roy
AU  - Day,Ben
TI  - Revival of the fittest: digital versions of classic typefaces 
SN  - 1883915082 :
PY  - 2000///
CY  - New York
PB  - RC Publications
KW  - Type and type-founding
KW  - Specimens
KW  - Digital techniques
KW  - Graphic design (Typography)
KW  - History
N1  - "A Print Magazine publication" -- Cover; Includes bibliographical references and index; Prologue: What makes a typeface a classic? -- Introduction: Esthetics, technology, and marketing in the evolution of typeface designs -- Major Typefaces and Their Digital Forms -- Ancient Inscriptions / Janet Horst -- Baskerville / John Dixon -- Bembo / Julie L. Rabun -- Bodoni and Didot / Roy McKelvey -- Caslon / Philip B. Meggs -- Centaur / Sheilah M. Barrett -- Century / Carolyn Annand -- Clarendons / Pornprapha Phatanateacha -- Cheltenham / Bonnie Hamalainen -- Egyptians / Shih-Tien Yang -- Franklin Gothic / Ansel M. Olson -- Garamond and Galliard / David Steadman -- Geometric Sans Serifs / Jarik van Sluijs -- Grotesques / Charley Foley -- Helvetica and Meta / Leland M. Hill -- Humanist Sans Serifs / Jamie M. Barnett -- Jenson / Sheilah M. Barrett -- Renaissance Inscriptions / Julie L. Rabun -- Times Roman / Mary Beth Henry -- Univers and Frutiger / Jennifer Gibson
N2  - The digital revolution has inspired designers to create a proliferation of contemporary versions of the great classic typefaces. Revival of the Fittest, a new book from the publishers of Print magazine, examines and explains the surge of interest in these revivals. Profusely illustrated with digital versions of Bodoni, Caslon, Garamond, grotesques, and others, these faces are compared to their metal-type originals and presented through imaginative applications in magazines, ads, books, and posters by outstanding graphic designers. The authors interview leading typeface revivalists including Jonathan Hoefler, Tobias Frere-Jones, and Matthew Carter; whose observations provide an understanding of design process and objectives behind their versions of these faces. Stunningly designed in full color with innovative diagrams, lucid type specimens, and scores of innovative applications of the featured faces, Revival of the Fittest demonstrates that classic is "cutting edge" in the digital age
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