Speaking in Faces: A Type Specimen Book / featuring the largest collection of moveable type in Virginia available for use by the public
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- Hardcover
- Charlottesville, VA: Virginia Center for the Book, 2017
Charlottesville, VA: Virginia Center for the Book, 2017. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Designer and printer: Lucas Czarnecki. Editor and printer: Kevin McFadden. Master printer: Garrett Queen. Consulting compositors: Bonnie Berstein, Richard Cappuccio, and Aurora Nichols."The first pages of this volume were printed more than a decade ago in a daunting attempt to produce a complete reference to the entire collection of the movable type available to VABC printers.
"Speaking in Faces, a project begun at VABC in 2004 by Johanna Drucker with VABC artists, is a unique specimen book, a creative resource for exploring letterpress printing, typography, and the treasures of our large and unique moveable type collection. VABC holds cases of Baskerville, Bernhard, Bodoni, Caslon, Garamond, Goudy, Franklin, Kennerly, Lydian, Spartan, and Stymie faces, among a diversity of other display fonts, dingbats, and wood type.
"The VABC collection (at more than 375 cases) is the largest collection of moveable type accessible to artists in Virginia; it is also among the largest collections in the Mid-Atlantic. Yet printers and artists who come to use the studio's type lack a basic resource to see printed letter forms at work and play -- no simple way to pick one face from a crowd!
"Typefaces in the book will be treated as a nexus of function (letters, words, and meaning) and form (visual and artistic display) that operate in a blend of verbal and nonverbal communication, just as human faces do." Tight, bright, and unmarred. Quarterbound, blue cloth spine, pale blue and grey ink lettering, paper onlay at front board, marbled paper boards, blue endpapers. fo. 112pp. Illus. (color plates). Numbered limited edition, this being 9 of 25.
"Speaking in Faces, a project begun at VABC in 2004 by Johanna Drucker with VABC artists, is a unique specimen book, a creative resource for exploring letterpress printing, typography, and the treasures of our large and unique moveable type collection. VABC holds cases of Baskerville, Bernhard, Bodoni, Caslon, Garamond, Goudy, Franklin, Kennerly, Lydian, Spartan, and Stymie faces, among a diversity of other display fonts, dingbats, and wood type.
"The VABC collection (at more than 375 cases) is the largest collection of moveable type accessible to artists in Virginia; it is also among the largest collections in the Mid-Atlantic. Yet printers and artists who come to use the studio's type lack a basic resource to see printed letter forms at work and play -- no simple way to pick one face from a crowd!
"Typefaces in the book will be treated as a nexus of function (letters, words, and meaning) and form (visual and artistic display) that operate in a blend of verbal and nonverbal communication, just as human faces do." Tight, bright, and unmarred. Quarterbound, blue cloth spine, pale blue and grey ink lettering, paper onlay at front board, marbled paper boards, blue endpapers. fo. 112pp. Illus. (color plates). Numbered limited edition, this being 9 of 25.