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Outline Alphabets: 100 Complete Fonts
By Dan X. Solo
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Here's an attractive treasury of alphabets that provides graphic artists with sources of design opportunities. For his latest collection of new and imaginative typefaces, typographer and type historian Dan Solo has compiled an impressive volume of eye-catching, versatile, and royalty-free outline alphabet styles.
Reproduced here in sharp black-and-white are 100 complete fonts, featuring expressive faces in a variety of styles: Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Victorian, contemporary, and many more. Included are the stately Albertus Outline, the classic Bauhaus Outline, charming Gill Floriated, and exotic Mandarin Outline, the stark and simple Ben Franklin Open, the commanding Normandie Open, appealing Washington Outline, and the optically engrossing Pluto Outline.
Most fonts include both upper- and lower-case letters; many also feature numbers and punctuation marks. And equally important, the inexpensive, attention-getting letters are ready for immediate use on signs and posters, in newsletters, and countless other graphic projects.
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Outline Alphabets - Dan X. Solo
DOVER BOOKS ON LETTERING, CALLIGRAPHY AND TYPOGRAPHY
AN ITALIC CALLIGRAPHY HANDBOOK, Caroline Joy Adams. (0-486-43528-8)
CALLIGRAPHY, Arthur Baker. (0-486-40950-3)
CALLIGRAPHIC ALPHABETS, Arthur Baker. (0-486-21045-6)
CHANCERY CURSIVE STROKE BY STROKE, Arthur Baker. (0-486-24278-1)
CELTIC HAND STROKE BY STROKE (IRISH HALF-UNCIAL FROM THE BOOK OF KELLS
): AN ARTHUR BAKER CALLIGRAPHY MANUAL, Arthur Baker. (0-486-24336-2)
ORNAMENTAL CALLIGRAPHY, George J. Becker. (0-486-27678-3)
GEORGE BICKHAM’S PENMANSHIP MADE EASY (YOUNG CLERKS ASSISTANT), George Bickham. (0-486-29779-9)
THE UNIVERSAL PENMAN, George Bickham. (0-486-20616-5)
LETTERING AND ALPHABETS, Albert J. Cavanagh. (0-486-20053-1)
CALLIGRAPHY A TO Z, Stuart David. (0-486-42314-X)
MEDIEVAL CALLIGRAPHY: ITS HISTORY AND TECHNIQUE, Marc Drogin. (0-486-26142-5)
CALLIGRAPHY OF THE MIDDLE AGES AND HOW TO DO IT, Marc Drogin. (0-486-40205-3)
BIZARRE & ORNAMENTAL ALPHABETS, Carol Belanger Grafton. (0-486-24105-X)
HISTORIC ALPHABETS AND INITIALS:
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