ANATOMY OF A TYPEFACE

'''Anatomy of a Typeface''' is a book on typefaces written by Alexander Lawson and "First published in 1990 by David R. Godine, Publisher"^[1]. The book is notable for devoting entire chapters to the development and uses of individual or small groupings of typefaces. Beyond ''Anatomy of a Typeface'' Lawson has considered and discussed the classification of types. Within ''Anatomy'', Lawson arranges the typefaces by classification. In his preface, Lawson qualifies his classification: "After using this system in the teaching of typography over a thirty-year period, I know that it is reasonably effective in the initial study of printing types. I am not disposed to consider it faultless by any means. A classification system, after all, is simply a tool ... Its primary purpose is to help people become familiar with these forms preparatory to putting them to effective and constructive typographic use."^[1]
Following are the thirty-one chapters of ''Anatomy of a Typeface'': the Black-letter Types: Goudy Text and Hammer Uncial; Old Style Types: Cloister Old Style, Centaur, Bembo, Arrighi, Dante, Goudy Old Style, Palatino, Garamond, Galliard, Granjon, Sabon, Janson, Caslon, Baskerville, Bodoni, Bulmer, Bell, Oxford, Caledonia, Cheltenham, and Bookman; Newspaper Types: Times Roman; Twentieth-century Gothics: Franklin Gothic; Square-serif Revival: Clarendon; Humanist Sans-serif Types: Optima; Geometric Sans-serif Types; Futura; and Script, Cursive, and Decorated Types; Type Making from Punch to Computer.^[1]
The third printing of ''Anatomy'' appeared in 2002.

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See also

★ ''The Elements of Typographic Style''

Reference

★ ''Anatomy of a Typeface'', Alexander S. Lawson, Godine, 1990. (ISBN 978-0879233334)

Notes

1. ''Anatomy of a Typeface'', Alexander Lawson, Godine, 1990.
2. ''Anatomy of a Typeface'', Alexander Lawson, Godine, 1990.
3. ''Anatomy of a Typeface'', Alexander Lawson, Godine, 1990.