TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fili, Louise
AU  - Heller,Steven
TI  - Scripts: elegant lettering from design's golden age 
SN  - 9780500290392
AV  - NK3620 .H45 2012
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - Thames & Hudson
KW  - Lettering
KW  - Calligraphy
KW  - Alphabet books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (page 350); French scriptes -- British scripts -- German die schrift -- Italian il corsivo -- American scripts
N2  - Seen in everything from wedding invitations and birth announcements to IOUs, menus, and diplomas, script typefaces impart elegance and sophistication to a broad variety of texts. Scripts never go out of style, and the hundreds of inventive examples here are sure to inspire today's designers. Derived from handwriting, these are typefaces that are stylized to suggest, imply, or symbolize certain traits linked to writing. Their fundamental characteristic is that all the letters, more or less, touch those before and after. Drawn from the Golden Age of scripts, from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, this is the first compilation of popular, rare, and forgotten scripts from the United States, Germany, France, England, and Italy. Featuring examples from a vast spectrum of sources--advertisements, street signs, type-specimen books, adn personal letters--this book is a delightful and invaluable trove of long overlooked material
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