Type
by A. A. Stewart
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About this eBook
- Author
- Stewart, A. A. (Alexander A.)
- Title
- Type: A Primer of Information About the Mechanical Features of Printing Types Their Sizes, Font Schemes, &c. with a Brief Description of Their Manufacture
- Credits
- Produced by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier, David Garcia and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- Z: Bibliography, Library science
- Subject
- Type and type-founding
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 36372
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36372
- Release Date
- June 10, 2011
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.TYPOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERIES FOR APPRENTICES—PART I. NO. 1 — TYPE — A PRIMER of INFORMATION ABOUT THE MECHANICAL FEATURES OF PRINTING TYPES: THEIR SIZES, FONT SCHEMES, &c. WITH A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THEIR MANUFACTURE — COMPILED BY — A. A. STEWART — PUBLISHED BY THE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION UNITED TYPOTHETAE OF AMERICA 1918 — Copyright, 1918 United Typothetae of America Chicago, Ill. — Composition by Pupils in the Typothetae School of Printing North End Union, Boston
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.MECHANICAL FEATURES OF TYPE — A Font of Type — A WEIGHT FONT — The Sizes of Type — Lining Type Faces — Kerned Types — Spaces and Quads — How Type is Made — The Linotype — The Monotype — Ingredients of Type Metal — Wood Type
- 5.SUPPLEMENTARY READING
- 6.REVIEW QUESTIONS — SUGGESTIONS TO STUDENTS AND INSTRUCTORS — QUESTIONS
- 7.GLOSSARY OF TERMS RELATING TO TYPE
- 8.TYPOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERIES FOR APPRENTICES
- 9.ACKNOWLEDGMENT
- 10.CONTRIBUTORS
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