The art & practice of typography : a manual of American printing, including a brief history up to the twentieth century, with reproductions of the work of early masters of the craft, and a practical discussion and an extensive demonstration of the modern use of type-faces and methods of arrangement (1917)

Gress, Edmund G. (Edmund Geiger), 1872-1934, Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957, former owner, Frederic W. Goudy Collection (Library of Congress) DLC, Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · New York : Oswald Pub. Co. · leaf 132

An illustration from The art & practice of typography : a manual of American printing, including a brief history up to the twentieth century, with reproductions of the work of early masters of the craft, and a practical discussion and an extensive demonstration of the modern use of type-faces and methods of arrangement, 1917, leaf 132 — ticular. Yet the proper ap-portionment of space on a page deter-mines the tone and the balance and aids in giving proportion and emphasis.In type-making when a font of typeis designed, not only is each letter con-sidered separately, but in combinationwith every other letter of the alphabet,that… … EXAMPLE 71 o be lo> balar EXAMPLE 70 lich the upper type group is uni high. Page by D. B. Updike of spacing is particularly prominent (Ex-ample 79-a). To partly overcome thisirregularity the companion lettersshould be spaced as shown in 79-b.When the letters A T occur together,and the space…

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