[texhax] book: Active Literature: Jan Tschichold and New Typography
Fehd, Ronald J. (CDC/CCHIS/NCPHI)
rjf2 at CDC.GOV
Tue Jan 6 21:34:25 CET 2009
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> Subject: [texhax] book: Active Literature: Jan Tschichold and
> New Typography
>
> Fehd, Ronald J. (CDC/CCHIS/NCPHI) writes:
> > for the font history mavens:
> >
> > Jan Tschichold (1902-1974) is considered by many to be the most
> > influential typographer of the twentieth century.
> Hi Ronald,
> many thanks for the hint. Obviously the bibliography provided by
> en.wikipedia.org is incomplete. There is an interesting book not
> mentioned there (though de.wikipedia.org mentions it):
>
> Jan Tschichold, Erfreuliche Drucksachen durch gute Typographie,
> MaroVerlag, Augsburg 2001, ISBN 3-87512-413-8.
>
> It's a reprint of a book Tschichold published in 1960. I mention it
> here because the reprint is still available in Germany. You can buy
> it in book stores or online. This book is quite interesting because
> though Tschichold favoured sans serif fonts a few decades earlier, he
> radically combats them in this book.
I would be interested to hear your commentary on his opinions
against san serif.
Since he worked in a time when typography was moving
off the page, from books onto very large posters,
I wonder what his issues were?
Today, we lean toward toward san serif because it reads good/well
on screen. Has that official opinion changed?
> Microsoft isn't the answer.
> Microsoft is the question,
> and the answer is NO.
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Ron Fehd the {SAS} macro maven CDC Atlanta GA USA RJF2 at cdc dot gov
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