Baskerville - The Biography of a Typeface (The ABC of Fonts) (Garfield Simon)(Pevná vazba)

The classic elegant English typeface, still widely used as a book text more than 250 years since its creation. Baskerville is a transitional design, poised between the first metal types and modern styles, notable for its combination of fat and thin strokes. When it was first used there was genuine concern that it would damage readers' eyes.

John Baskerville was a maverick lacquer maker and printer in Birmingham, a flamboyant dresser, an important figure in the Enlightenment. Though it earned him little money, he was obsessive about both his typeface and its appearance on the page, a perfect Baskerville - Simon Garfield od authora Simon Garfield a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus.cz
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