Compendium for Literates

by Karl Gerstner

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Karl Gerstner is one of Switzerland's-and therefore the world's-best and best-known graphic and typographic designers. His high ambition in this book, first published in German in 1972, is to provide a complete and systematic taxonomy of writing, a programmed investigation into the underlying structure of script and type; Gerstner writes that his book is meant to "encompass the aspects and possibilities of the alphabet in their totality." It is this...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0262070618

ISBN13:9780262070614

Release Date:January 1974

Publisher:MIT Press (MA)

Length:180 Pages

Weight:1.38 lbs.

Related Subjects

Alphabet Arts, Music & Photography Decorative Arts & Design Design Education & Reference Foreign Language Study & Reference Historical Study & Educational Resources History Language Arts Words, Language & Grammar

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