Font Samples

"""Font Samples"" is a collection of beautiful font examples compiled by Jan Tschichold, a renowned typographer and book designer. The publication includes fonts of exceptional beauty that exist outside of time and fashion - true examples to emulate in font... design.

Before presenting the collection of samples, Tschichold meticulously analyzes the shape and structure of letters, discusses bad and good fonts, writes about the use of uppercase and lowercase letters, letter-spacing and line-spacing. Much attention is paid to the proper selection of a font for a task, font compositions, and typography in urban environments. Many valuable historical illustrations are provided in actual size and carefully retouched by the author, making them look better than in poorly preserved originals."