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Issue 5 | January – June 2018

New and ancient graphic signs

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INDICE

Paolo Belardi

Editorial. WYSIWYG: the solitude of the first letters

Pauline Clancy, Richard McElveen

Typographic DNA of Place / Idiosyncras(cities)

Armando Cano Redondo, Andrés Martínez-Medina

Typography, scale and body: commercial lettering and signboards in the small Spanish shop trade of the 20th century

Luciano Perondi, Antonio Perri

Framing space in Aztec writing: the Codex Mendoza as a model of transposition and beyond

Enrico Cicalò

The characters of power. The power of the characters

Luca Martini, Valeria Menchetelli, Giovanna Ramaccini

Contemporary characters. Three artistic writings between enterprise and communication

Ruggero Lenci

Esperanto, graphic archetypes, biophilia

Alessandra Cirafici

Afterword. Typefaces to look at / Images to read

The feature and knowledge of Benedictine culture distilled in the style of handwriting: here the “Carolingian lowercase” of the VIII century. Chapter XL of the Rule by Saint Benedict: De mensura potus. © San Gallo, Abbey Library, Cod. Sang. 914, c. 50r.

Languages: English/Italian/Spanish

Pages: 106

p-ISBN: 978-88-6049-2968; 978-88-8443-812-6

e-ISBN: 978-88-8443-811-9