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Title:

California type designers : featuring fourteen designers and eighteen typefaces : with quotations from classic California literature and memoir / edited by Matthew Kelsey.

Publisher:

Arion Press

Copyright Date:

©2020

Description:

1 portfolio (13 folded sheets) ; 28 x 21 cm

Subject:

Type designers--California--Biography.
Type and type-founding--California--Specimens.
Literature.
Type and type-founding.
Type designers.
California--In literature.
California.
Biographies.
Quotations.
Specimens.
Biographies.
Quotations.
Type specimens--California--2020.
Keepsakes--California--2020.
Typefaces (Type evidence)--Lucida.
Typefaces (Type evidence)--Chron.
Typefaces (Type evidence)--Parkinson.
Typefaces (Type evidence)--Sutro.
Typefaces (Type evidence)--Eidetic.
Typefaces (Type evidence)--MVB Verdigris.
Typefaces (Type evidence)--Beorcana.
Typefaces (Type evidence)--Harmonia Sans.
Typefaces (Type evidence)--Source Serif.
Typefaces (Type evidence)--Roslindale.
Typefaces (Type evidence)--Obviously.
Typefaces (Type evidence)--Redaction.
Typefaces (Type evidence)--Chimera.
Typefaces (Type evidence)--Prospectus.
Typefaces (Type evidence)--Ricochet.

Other Authors:

Book Club of California, issuing body.
Camino Press (Saratoga, Calif.), book designer.
Arion Press, printer.
Mohawk Fine Papers, Inc., papermaker.
Crown Flexo, platemaker.
Kelsey, Matthew, 1961- book designer. writer of foreword, book designer.

Notes:

Title from portfolio. "Designed by Matthew Kelsey at Camino Press, Saratoga, California, and letterpress printed at Arion Press in San Francisco on a Miller two-color cylinder press. The text paper is Accent Opaque, and the cover paper is Mohawk Renewal Straw, made with 30% straw fiber. Plates made by Crown Flexo"--Colophon.

Contents:

Foreword / by Matthew Kelsey -- A personal view of California type design / by Christopher Slye -- 1. Lucida Sans Italic and Lucida Calligraphy: Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes -- 2. Chron Electric and Chron Metro: Jim Parkinson -- 3. Parkinson and Sutro: Jim Parkinson -- 4. Eidetic Modern and Eidetic Neo: Rod Cavazos -- 5. MVB Verdigris: Mark van Bronkhorst -- 6. Beorcana: Carl Crossgrove -- 7. Harmonia Sans: Jim Wasco -- 8. Source Serif: Frank Grießhammer -- 9. Roslindale: David Jonathan Ross -- 10. Obviously: James Edmondson -- 11. Redaction: Jeremy Mickel --12. Emerging California type designers. Chimera: Maria Doreuli ; Prospectus: Dave Bailey ; Ricochet: Sun Helen Isdahl Kalvenes.

Series:

The Book Club of California 2020 keepsake

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1227106333

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)