Complete fonts of 100 contemporary display alphabets -- upper- and lowercase letters, numbers, and punctuation. Incredible variety includes inlines and outlines, round looks and backslants, double shaded and highlighted, and scores of other styles.

Type fonts selected to add formal elegance, precision and grace to graphic projects that require a more reserved and thoughtful approach. Most of the fonts include both upper- and lowercase alphabets, numbers, punctuation marks and typographical ornaments.

A sourcebook of initials and ornamental letters reproduces designs from the eighth century to the present.

This fascinating book offers a complete visual of the Egyptian, Semite, Phoenician, Greek, Roman and Cursive alphabets. In the easy-to-follow format of this book, you will witness the emergence of the alphabet and visually see its evolution all the way to the letters used to write today, in both print and cursive throughout the ages!

"Though there are many books about the history of the alphabet, virtually none address how that history came to be. In Inventing the Alphabet, Johanna Drucker guides readers from antiquity to the present to show how humans have shaped and reshaped their own understanding of this transformative writing tool. From ancient beliefs in the alphabet as a divine gift to growing awareness of its empirical origins through the study of scripts and inscriptions, Drucker describes the frameworks-classical, textual, biblical, graphical, antiquarian, archaeological, paleographic, and political-within which the alphabet's history has been and continues to be constructed. Drucker's book begins in ancient Greece, with the earliest writings on the alphabet's origins. She then explores biblical sources on the topic and medieval preoccupations with the magical properties of individual letters. She later delves into the development of modern archaeological and paleographic tools, and she concludes with the role of alphabetic characters in the digital era. Throughout, she argues that, as a shared form of knowledge technology integrated into every aspect of our lives, the alphabet performs complex cultural, ideological, and technical functions, and her carefully curated selection of images demonstrates how closely the letters we use today still resemble their original appearance millennia ago"--

Comprehensive archive of especially bold fonts ideal for advertising, signs, posters, announcements, etc. Banker's Roman, Dolmen, Elizabethan, Goudy Heavyface, many more. Most fonts include upper- and lowercase letters, punctuation, numerals.

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.