Type

Simon Loxley, practicing typographer, designer and teacher, lives in London.

Sine qua non. The naked letter:the anatomy of type. Introduction. The adventure and the art: the obscure origins of a revolution; Dynasty: in which William Caslon makes Britain the type centre of the world; Garamuddle: when is a sixteenth-century typeface not a sixteenth-century typeface?; The maverick tendency: the type and strange afterlife of John Baskerville; Detour Meltdown: a stroll around a fallen giant; 'Hideous Italians': thicks, thins, and the rise of advertising type; American spring: creating the modern age; An awful beauty: the private press movement; Under fire: Frederic Goudy, type star; Detour Typecast: on the trail of the metal fanatics; Going Underground: Edward Johnston's letters for London; The doves and the serpent: Stanley Morison and the Wardes; Dangerous passions: radical European typography in the inter-war years; Leper messiah: Gill semi-light, Gill heavy; Europe after the rain: rebirth and twilight; Detour Portable serenity: the precision and the passion of the letter cutter; Two ghosts: forgotten technologies from the dustbin of history; Motorway madness: David Kindersley and the great road sign ruckus; A company man: Herb Lubalin and the International Typeface Corporation; The twenty-six soldiers: fiddling with the format; New gods: Neville Brody and the designer decade; Revolution again: liberating the letter; Detour Inside the micro-foundry: twenty-first-century type; Typocalypse. Illustration credits. Bibliography. General index. Typeface index. .