书名：Typographic Specimens: A Natural History of Letterforms
定价：115.0
ISBN：9781781453094
作者：Reverend Jackson Whitehead
版次：1
出版时间：2017-01

内容提要：

书名: Typographic Specimens: A Natural History of Letterforms/印刷标本：字母的自然历史

作者：Reverend Jackson Whitehead
出版：Ammonite Press，2017

语种：英语

装帧：精装，112页

尺寸：15.2*19.6 cm

 

 

The book presents 60 “species" from the imagination of author and illustrator, A.W. Bainbridge, taken from a fictional manuscript by the Reverend Jackson Whitehead, who served aboard the HMS Pica—sister ship to the Beagle—during Charles Darwin’s famous voyage in the 1830s. The menagerie of beasts, fish, fowl, and invertebrates, all created from traditional typefaces, numerals, and punctuation marks, ranges from the Bracket Spider or "Hanging Parentheses," which traps its prey by encasing them in its finely bracketed web, to the Comma Cat, identifiable by its very short pause.