Type Revivals
Type Revivals For typographers, revival type forms an integral part of their font repertoire. Yet all revivals are interpretations of usually lost originals. Older classics such as Baskerville,…
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Type Revivals
For typographers, revival type forms an integral part of their font repertoire. Yet all revivals are interpretations of usually lost originals. Older classics such as Baskerville, Garamond, and Bodoni are imbedded fonts in standard operating system collections.
The definition, application, and use of type revivals has been neglected, or worse, misunderstood. In almost every case, there is, and has to be, considerable selection, revising, and re-formatting involved. Jerry Kelly's Type Revivals sheds new light on the subject, reviewing hundreds of important modern versions of earlier typefaces, and presenting clear and concise discussions of their origins, permutations, and contemporary digital availability.
No one in a position to select a typeface, or use type in a book work, should be without
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