Sentence examples for specimen book from inspiring English sources
A specimen book enables a designer to visualize the mix and match new and old typefaces.
The logo itself consists of the name in a digital font, inspired by a mid-20th-century Italian one found in an old type specimen book.
Nikola Djurek, who holds a Ph.D. in type and graphic design and is the founder of the Croatian type foundry Typonine, has just issued his first specimen book.
He explains that the manual is important for several reasons, mostly having to do with its scope and elegance as a specimen book.
In fact, it is hard enough just making the type work efficiently, which — judging from the specimen book — is something that not all of Djurek's faces succeed at.
And the eccentric typography on the cover of a specimen book by Thomas Hailing elegantly employs a quirky ornate typeface that prefigures everything from psychedeliato today's comics.
These specimen books nourish and replenish, inform and delight.
Type specimen books are the plumbing-parts catalogs of graphic design.
One of the specimen books is labeled "Eden," here are a few pages from that booklet.
Mr. Kelly amassed a huge collection of rare types and specimen books he bought from old printers.
The coverage emphasizes printers' manuals, type specimen books and "writing masters' copybooks," the cornerstones of modern graphic design.
