The manual covers the basic primary skills and principles of font creating, components of the form and matter of the lettering, word and sentence. It also unreveals some secrets of font design. The essays include: Some difficulties in mastering the basic font skills; Genesis and development of fonts; Composition of font graphics; Typographic interpretation of the meaning of words and letters; Typographic interpretation of the phrase meaning; Some approaches to the font design. The manual is well illustrated.
1978, 96 pages, illustrated
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(Lewis Carroll)