As you go through the designer's type book, you will see that the faces vary in feeling. One seems particularly graceful, another crisp and businesslike, one delicate, another bold and forthright. Although new type faces are still being made up, some of the ones you see most often are taken from designs hundreds of years old. Many of these — such as Garamond, Bodoni, Caslon, and Baskerville — are named after famous men in the history of printing.
2/ From Editor to Designer, in Pages, Pictures, and Print: A Book In The Making, written and illustrated by Joanna Foster, New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1958
2/ From Editor to Designer, in Pages, Pictures, and Print: A Book In The Making, written and illustrated by Joanna Foster, New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1958
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