Byrom, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-4519-768X (2023) Archiving as a Tool for Rural Jobbing Printers in Late 1800s Great Britain Through the Lens of the C. Armstrong_E. Pruddah Collection. American Printing History Association. American Printing History Association.

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Abstract

Throughout the history of type design the scale of letterforms has been linked directly to the constraints of reading texts in books. In the 1800s the idea of the crystal goblet —typefaces that were purely in the service of reading and designed not to be noticed in themselves — began to give
way to new large-scale expressive forms that vied for attention. These letterforms no longer needed to address the confinements of reading line-after-line, page-after-page, that had fundamentally shaped typeface design since Gutenberg. Instead, they were created to present short sharp messages leading to ‘the growth of non-linearity in graphic design’ away from the printed page.

Item Type:	Other
Status:	Published
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain > DA550 Victorian era, 1837-1901 N Fine Arts > NE Print media
School/Department:	School of the Arts
URI:	https://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/9754

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