Texts On Type : Critical Writings on Typography

This anthology is designed to enrich the reader's understanding of 20th-century type design and typography. It contains more than 50 important, known and rare texts by critics, historians and type designers about the history, aesthetics and practice of type design and typography. There are essays by major type masters such as W.A. Dwiggins, Hermann Zapf and Paul Rand, as well as critical analyses of vintage and contemporary type and type design. The book specifically pinpoints those texts that should increase the common knowledge of typographic history and criticism. It spans the 20th century, with emphasis on the time from 1940 to the start of the 21st century.