The alphabet is the message. With these special effects and topical alphabets, you can advertise or identify a product or service in lettering that reinforces your message. For example: letters shaped like chopsticks; letters made up of logs; letters made up of bones; letters frozen in ice; letters with stars and stripes. These are just a few of the alphabets you can use from the 100 fonts selected by Dan X. Solo from the Solotype Typographers Catalog. All the fonts appear in upper case, while many also have lower case and/or numerals. Whether your message is about the Fourth of July, cool refreshment, outdoor life, modern technology, summer, spring, winter, or a hundred other moods and occasions, you'll find in this collection an alphabet that tells the story. The typographic designs may be sophisticated or naïve, but all are eminently useful and difficult to find in usual sources.

Handy archive of royalty-free typefaces ideal for ads, signs, menus, etc. Calico Casual, Designer Raleigh, Easter Gothic, Galaxy One, many other fonts. Use with any copier for an endless source of condensed type.

No need for copper or plates to achieve the distinctive calligraphic script of eighteenth-century Europe ― just a pen, ink, and this comprehensive workbook will do. Master calligrapher Dick Jackson explains the basic strokes for almost all letters of the copperplate alphabet. Simple instructions and examples introduce the swirls, flourishes, strikings, and thick and thin strokes that make copperplate calligraphy a source of pleasure for the practitioner and a delight to the reader. A historical introduction traces the growth of copperplate from its roots in the French ronde of the seventeenth century, to its adaptation by English clerks into their copybooks, and the development of the style known as round hand. In addition, guide sheets and instructions for individual letters and numbers offer aspiring calligraphers a practical approach to this enduring art form.

"Eminent calligrapher, designer and design historian Jan Tschichold here offers admirers of fine art and handwriting a stunning collection of over 300 years of the best of European calligraphic art. Treasury of Calligraphy presents 219 examples of work by dozens of Europe's master calligraphers--the cream of the manuals and copybooks, selected according to Tschichold's personal criteria of expressiveness and aesthetic importance. Here is the near-Gothic rodonda of 16th-century Spaniard Juan de Yciar; the variations on northern Fraktur and southern cursive practices by his German contemporary Caspar Neff; the sparingly used, dramatic ornaments of 17th-century Lyons master François Desmoulins; and magnificent scripts by Palatino, Wyss, Vespasiano, Cresci, van den Velde, Beauchesne and Baildon, Barbedor, Casanova, Snell, Bickham, Stirling and many others."--back cover.