Grotesque: The Birth of The Modern Sans Serif in The Types of The Nineteenth Century with Sara Soskolne from sara and sans Watch Video
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⏲ Duration: 50 min 84 sec ✓ Published: 23-Jun-2016
Description: This talk took place on Tuesday May 17th, 2016 as part of the Letterform Lecture series at the San Francisco Public Library. This series is co-sponsored by Letterform Archive, a California non-profit public benefit corporation, incorporated in 2014, and the San Francisco Public Library. nnStanley Morison argues in Politics and Script that the nineteenth-century invention of the sans serif lowercase was no less than ‘the most novel and permanent contribution to letter-design that has appeared o