Gentium is a typeface family designed to enable the diverse ethnic groups around the world who use the Latin and Greek scripts to produce readable, high-quality publications. It supports a wide range of Latin-based alphabets and includes glyphs that correspond to all the Latin ranges of Unicode.
Erst wenn man sich durch ein als «schlecht» empfundenes Schriftbild irritiert fühlt, mag man auf die Faktoren aufmerksam werden, die bei der gelungenen typographischen Gestaltung eine Rolle spielen. Gewisse Grundgesetze haben sich dabei seit Jahrhunderten gehalten.
Tipoteca Italiana was established in 1995 to preserve and foster the arts of letterpress printing and handset typography. Its goal is to highlight the rich history and significant contributions of Italian type designers from the earliest days of printing, through the Industrial Revolution, to the present time.
Tipoteca houses not only an extraordinary collection of metal and hand-cut wood typefaces, but also maintains an archive, a printing museum, a functioning print studio, and an extensive library—all in one efficiently designed, multipurpose building.
Briar Press is a community of letterpress printers, book artists, and press enthusiasts. The site is dedicated to the preservation of letterpress-era equipment and the art of fine printing.
Whatever the psychology, there is a significant number of people who find printing incredibly attractive: such people may join the Printing Industry but many carry it out on a small scale in their own homes and become members of the British Printing Society.
J. Böhringer, P. Bühler, und P. Schlaich. X.Media.Press Springer, Berlin ; Heidelberg, 5., vollständig überarbeitete u. erweiterte Aufl. Edition, (2011)
J. Böhringer, P. Bühler, und P. Schlaich. X.media.press Springer, Berlin ; Heidelberg, 5., vollständig überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage Edition, (2011)