Ismar David made his career over a broad spectrum of applied art. His work is exciting, not merely because of its technical excellence, but because it resonates with clarity and color of a distinct and distinctive artistic voice.

This work features stipple-drawn portraits and biographies of twenty recipients of RIT’s Frederic W. Goudy Award from 1969 to 1988. Zapf, Mardersteig, Chappell, Wolpe, Carter, and Frutiger are among the designers, typographers, and historians honored in this book. Printed by offset lithography in black ink with vermilion accents.

Paul Standard named Edward Johnston as "The great exemplar of modern calligraphy, the link between all scribes living and departed." With this auspicious introduction, it is no wonder that Standard became Johnston’s chief benefactor in later years, heading a fund drive to save Johnston from destitution in his infirmity.

Indie Fonts 2:

Independent type designers have devoted their talents to producing fresh new fonts that can give your text a major boost. Indie Fonts 2 provides a showcase collection of over 1600 diverse fonts from 19 of today's hottest digital type foundries and features the best work of these designers. Indie Fonts 2 will help you find some of the highest quality fonts available today.

For centuries, designers have chosen type styles to convey unique expressions and to make their work stand out. Today’s computers provide a selection of fonts that serve reasonably well for workaday letters and publications, but have become utterly boring from overuse. If you want your project to attract the reader’s attention you need an original font.

All of the short texts, or quotations, reproduced in this book were originally calligraphic embellishments that appeared at the heads of letters written by Hermann Zapf to Paul Standard in the 1940s and '50s. Fifteen such decorations are carefully printed here, accompanied by translations (where necessary) and Zapf's gracious tribute essay to Standard.

The essays in this 1993 exhibition catalogue chronicle the graphical evolution of type specimens in the last century. A large portion is dedicated to elegantly placed reproductions of such specimens from American and European type foundries, including Linotype, ATF, ITC, Bauer, Klingspor, Enschedé, Deberny et Peignot, and Adobe. Accompanied by a 125-item checklist of the exhibition.