An Essay on Typography Download

Author: Eric Gill
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0879237627

An Essay on Typography

An Essay on Typography was first published in 1931, instantly recognized as a classic, and has long been unavailable. Get An Essay on Typography computer books for free.
It represents Gill at his best opinionated, fustian, and consistently humane. It is his only major work on typography and remains indispensable for anyone interested in the art of letter forms and the presentation of graphic information.

This manifesto, however, is not only about letters their form, fit, and function but also about man's role in an industrial society. As Gill wrote later, it was his chief object "to describe two worlds that of industrialism and that of the human workman & to define their limits."

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An Essay on Typography Download

It represents Gill at his best opinionated, fustian, and consistently humane. It is his only major work on typography and remains indispensable for anyone interested in the art of letter forms and the presentation of graphic information.

This manifesto, however, is not only about letters their form, fit, and function but also about man's role in an industrial society. As Gill wrote later, it was his chief object "to describe two worlds that of industrialism and that of the human workman & to define their limits Here are the seeds of modern advertising unjustified

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