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Modern Typography, 2nd Edition
Modern Typography, 2nd Edition is a completely updated and revised edition of Robin Kinross's classic survey of European and North American typography since 1700, first published in 1992. In addition to numerous new illustrations and revised text, Modern Typography has been re-scaled to a new, convenient pocket format. Kinross's overview breaks ground by focusing on the hi...more
Paperback, 224 pages
Published
September 1st 2004
by Hyphen
(first published 1997)
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This is the best historical account of European and American twentieth-century typography. The text is built off of thorough research, it presents a sound thesis (that the term 'modern' is most useful and meaningful as a description of the period after which the typographic trades became self-conscious), and Kinross never draws easy lines of cause and effect, but rather presents the whole rich synchronic picture of ~three centuries of people and places that play parts in the related histories of...more
Informationally dense, a very dry read.
Actually I read the 1992 edition and thought it was so great I ordered this 2004 second edition and I'll read it again. This is a brilliant concise history of typography -- with an emphasis on 'modern' but with lots of play for traditional work as well.
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