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RR 2012/329 Typography, Referenced: A Comprehensive Visual Guide to the Language, History, and Practice of Typography Allan Haley et al. Rockport Publishers Beverly, MA 2012 398 pp. ISBN 978 1 59253 702 0 (print); ISBN 978 1 61058 205 6 (e-book) £45 $50
Keywords Guides and handbooks, History, Written communication
Review DOI 10.1108/09504121211278052
This profusely illustrated volume is essentially a "comprehensive reference guide to all things typographic". The eight authors, Allan Haley, Richard Poulin, Jason Tselentis, Tony Seddon, Gerry Leonidas, Ina Saltz, Kathryn Hendereson and Tyler Alterman, intend their book "to be a broad, authoritative, complete resource of typographic knowledge". The hope is that the work will act "as a single sourcebook in which practitioners and the average person alike can find every aspect of typography, with resources and guides for further research". They strive "for breadth and inclusiveness, to cover the essential knowledge of the complex subject of typography, everything that a "typographically educated" person should know". Typography, Referenced claims that it covers every area of typography and provides representative illustrations of its subject.
Following Ina Saltz's Introduction laying down the parameters of the work, there are 11 chapters. These begin with Alan Haley and Kathryn Henderson's Type History and Timeline providing a history of type dating back to the ancient Greeks through to 2010 with significant dates from the twentieth century and the...