New book: Peter Karow, Font Technology

Karow P. Font Technology. Description and Tools: translated from English. Moscow: Mir, 2001. 454 pp., ill.
Price (at the publisher’s shop) 120 roubles.

The book was written by a German type designer of world renown. It covers the history and technology of font production, the font market, methods of assessing font quality, legibility, the classification of letterforms and copyright protection issues. The edition is supplemented with material on the history of Cyrillic type written by V. V. Yefimov.

The book can be ordered by post on the Mir publishing house website http://www.mir-pubs.dol.ru or bought directly at the publisher’s shop, tel. (095) 286-82-33