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Palatino: The Natural History of a Typeface
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Palatino: The Natural History of a Typeface Hardback - 2016

by Robert Bringhurst

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The biography of one of world's most popular typefaces. "Whether one likes Palatino or not, Mr. Bringhurst's book is an instant classic."--The Wall Street Journal

Hermann Zapf was one of the great practitioners of the graphic arts and Palatino is probably the most widely known and used of all Zapf faces. Author Robert Bringhurst traces Palatino's development, with all its infinite permutations, and often invisible refinements through a long and fascinating history of variations and permutations, imitations and conflations--from hot metal, through the brief interlude of film setting and finally into the digital world.

It is all here, in encompassing detail: a fully illustrated account of Palatino and its extended family: foundry and Linotype, Michelangelo, Sistina, Aldus, Heraklit, Phidias, Zapf Renaissance, PostScript Palatino, Palatino and Aldus Nova, and Palatino Sans. Included with the text are over 200 illustrations of design sketches, working drawings, smoke proofs and test prints, matrices, foundry and Linotype patterns.

But beyond that, the book is an argument that artists who create letters can, and should, be judged by the same standards and held in the same esteem as composers who write music and artists who paint on canvas. Bringhurst asks the question, "Can a penstroke or a letterform be so beautiful it will stop you in your tracks and maybe break your heart?" In this groundbreaking and totally original book, he answers the question: "It can."

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  • Title Palatino: The Natural History of a Typeface
  • Author Robert Bringhurst
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 200
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher David R. Godine Publisher
  • Publication date 2016
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781567925722 / 1567925723
  • Weight 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 5.9 x 1.2 in (23.37 x 14.99 x 3.05 cm)
  • Category Art & Art Instruction
  • Library of Congress subjects Type designers, Type and type-founding
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2016285283
  • Dewey Decimal Code 686.224

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Boston: David R. Godine, 2016. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. As New in As New dust jacket. Bringhurst takes as his theme Palatino, the most widely known and used of all Hermann Zapf's faces, and traces its development over six eventful decades. The story of an artist and an artform finding their way through the violent waves and crosswinds of the Digital Reveolution. ; 6 x 9 1/4
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