Pioneers of Modern Typography

Pioneers of Modern Typography was a book written by Herbert Spencer in 1969.

Pioneers of Modern Typography drew on and re-used material previously published by Spencer in the journal Typographica, which had brought to Britain some of the typographical experiments and design history of continental Europe.[1] In Lund Humphries description of the book:[2]

"Modern typography does not have its origins in the conventional printing industry. Its roots are entwined with those of twentieth-century painting, poetry and architecture, and it flowered quite suddenly and dramatically in the twenty years following the publication of Marinetti's Futurist manifesto in 1909."

References

  1. Robin Kinross (Spring 1984). Review: Pioneers of Modern Typography by Herbert Spencer. Design Issues 1 (1): 89-91. (subscription required)
  2. Pioneers of Modern Typography. Lund Humphries. Archived 26 January 2014.