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Type Designers of the Twentieth Century by David Jury (Bodleian Library Publishing) tells the fascinating story of the design and manufacture of typefaces over the past 100 years, from the hand-made letter forms cut from metal blocks to digital designs made with sophisticated computerized techniques.
To celebrate the publication of this book, Jeremy Tankard, a leading type designer, describes the evolution of type design during his own professional career, recalling the freedom to experiment that accompanied the early days of digital type design, to contemporary practices which harness the tremendous advances in design technology widely used today across the industry.
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David Jury is a writer, designer, printer, lecturer and historian of type, typography and graphic design. He is editor of Parenthesis, the journal of the Fine Press Book Association (UK/European edition) and proprietor of the Fox Ash Press. His many books include Reinventing Print (Bloomsbury, 2018), Mid-Century Type (Merrill Books, 2023) and, most recently, Type Designers of the Twentieth Century (Bodleian Library Publishing, 2025).
Jeremy Tankard is a type designer with more than 30 years’ experience. His first typeface, 'Disturbance', was released through Fontshop International in 1993, followed by 'Bliss' in 1996 as part of the Agfa Creative Alliance and later by typefaces for Adobe and Microsoft. He continues to produce a wide range of type that offer new visual textures for creative use; some are bespoke commissions but many are available to license at typography.net.
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