Contents

LATIN OR RENAISSANCE SCRIPTS

DECORATED

SHADED

FAT FACE

ANTIQUE OR EGYPTIAN

SHADOWED OR THREE-DIMENSIONAL

SANS SERIF

REVERSED OR CAMEO

IONIC

OUTLINE OR OPEN

CLARENDON

CALLIGRAPHIC

STENCIL

TYPEWRITER

MISCELLANEOUS DISPLAY TYPES

Notes on the Illustrations
Appendix I. Stress or Shading
Appendix II. Serifs
Bibliography
Index

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List of Illustrations

1. BibliaPauperum, circa 1460-1470 see front end papers

2. From a manuscript written at Mainz, circa 1440 page 4

3. 42-line Bible, Mainz, circa 1455 6

4. Fere-humanistica or Gotico-antiqua 9

5. Rotunda or Round-text 10

6. Thegothic Bastardas (a) Schwabacher 11

7. The gothic Bastardas (b) Upper-Rhine type 13

8. The gothic Bastardas (с) The Wittenberg letter 15

9. The gothic Bastardas (d) Fraktur 16

10. Caroline minuscule 18

11. Humanistic or neo-caroline hand, Venice, circa 1476 20

12. The first humanistic or roman type 23

13. John and Wendelin da Spira's roman, Venice 1470 25

14. Nicolas Jenson s roman, Venice 1470 27

15. One of Erhard Ratdolt's romans, Venice 1477 28
16.' The origin ojall old-faces' 3°

17. Roman employed by Aldus in 1499 3 3

18. Aldine roman, 1500 34

19. Possible Garamond romans, Paris 1531 35

20. A possible Garamond roman, Paris 1545 36

21. Garamond roman and italic, Paris 1545 37

22. Roman types used by Christopher Plantin 3 8, 39

23. William Caslon I. Roman and italic, 1734 40

24. Humanistic cursive hand 42

25. The first italic type, 1300 44

26. The earliest of the formal chancery italics, 1523 46

27. Vicentino's first italic 48

28. Vicentino's second italic 49

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