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Typography papers 1, Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, University of Reading, 1996

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Content includes:
Maxim Zhukov: The peculiarities of Cyrillic letterforms: design variation and correlation in Russian typefaces
Paul Stiff: Instructing the printer: what specification tells about typographic designing
Margaret M. Smith: The typography of complex texts: how an early printer eliminated the scribes’ red
Yateendra Joshi: Design specification for tables: a case study
Andrew Boag: Typographic measurement: a chronology
Alan May: Roman bronze inscriptional lettering: a note on methods of production

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  • Format: Book
  • Year: 1996
  • Client/Publisher: Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, University of Reading
  • Size: 208mm x 296mm

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Typography papers 1, Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, University of Reading, 1996
Typography papers 1, Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, University of Reading, 1996
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