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Volume 1, Fall, 1994
Volume 2, Winter, 1995
Volume 3, Summer, 1995
Volume 4, Spring, 1996
Volume 6, Spring, 1998


Serif: The Magazine of Type and Typography
Volume 1, Fall, 1994

                      Anonymous   Big Caslon -- FF Chelsea -- Elroy --
                                  Lucida Casual -- Twist -- Zombie . . . . 6--9
                      Anonymous   Briefly Noted: Font CDs -- Quickdraw GX
                                  -- Multiple Masters for Windows -- Ed
                                  Cleary -- Treacyfaces and Headliners
                                  International -- American Typecasting
                                  Fellowship -- Emigre's Whirligig Catalog
                                  -- Santa Cruz Book Show  . . . . . . . . 10--12
                    D. A. Hosek   Centaur & Arrighi . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--15
            William S. Peterson   William Morris and his types . . . . . . 16--25
                       Dan Carr   The weight of a serif, or, The
                                  influences of punchcutting on type
                                  design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--29
              Robert Bringhurst   On the classification of letterforms . . 30--39
                     Paul Solyn   A fine italic hand . . . . . . . . . . . 40--45
                 Gunnar Swanson   Clarety: Drinking from the crystal
                                  goblet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--45
                   Gerald Lange   [T-26] and `design typography' . . . . . 46--48
             Christian Schwartz   The changing of the guard  . . . . . . . 49--49
                   Gerald Lange   Digital type foundry for typophiles:
                                  Carter & Cone Type Inc. . . . . . . . . . 50--56, 58
                Charles Bigelow   Thoughts on Century Schoolbook . . . . . 59--60
                Stephen O. Saxe   American type specimen books . . . . . . 61--63
                    D. A. Hosek   Book reviews: \em Modern Typography, by
                                  Robin Kinross  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--65
                     Jon Pastor   Book reviews: \em Anatomy of a Typeface,
                                  by Alexander Lawson  . . . . . . . . . . 65--66
                 William Ricker   Book reviews: \em How Typography Works,
                                  by Fernand Baudin  . . . . . . . . . . . 66--66
                    D. A. Hosek   Endpapers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--68


Serif: The Magazine of Type and Typography
Volume 2, Winter, 1995

                      Anonymous   New faces: Monotype Bulmer -- Hairspray
                                  -- Handsome -- Schneidler Initials . . . 7--9
                      Anonymous   Briefly Noted: The return of ATF --
                                  ATypI '94 -- Recent publications -- Type
                                  on the information superhighway -- The
                                  death of the floppy? -- News from the
                                  Goudy International Center . . . . . . . 10--13
              Robert Bringhurst   Holding ideas in the hand: The physics &
                                  metaphysics of renaissance letterforms   15--24
           Paul Hayden Duensing   Metal type: Whither or wither? A look at
                                  the state of letterpress printing in
                                  1994 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--27
              Alastair Johnston   Two centuries of type & technology  . . . 28--31
                    D. A. Hosek   A Conversation with Carol Twombly  . . . 32--40
                Stephen O. Saxe   More about type specimens  . . . . . . . 42--44
                   Aaron Priven   The times they are a-changing (Apologies
                                  to Mr. Zimmerman)  . . . . . . . . . . . 45--45
               Beatrice Beaujon   In the beginning . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--51
                    D. A. Hosek   Adobe Poetica  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--53
                   Gerald Lange   Galápagos Design Group: Too much
                                  fashion---not enough vision  . . . . . . 54--57
                    D. A. Hosek   Contemporary Type Specimen Books: \em M&H
                                  Type Catalogue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--59
                    D. A. Hosek   Contemporary Type Specimen Books: \em
                                  American Metal Typefaces of the
                                  Twentieth Century, by Mac McGrew . . . . 59, 61
                    D. A. Hosek   Contemporary Type Specimen Books: \em
                                  Adobe Type Specimen Books  . . . . . . . 61--62
                    D. A. Hosek   Contemporary Type Specimen Books: \em An
                                  Atlas of Typeforms, by James Sutton and
                                  Alan Bartram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--63
                    D. A. Hosek   Endpapers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--64


Serif: The Magazine of Type and Typography
Volume 3, Summer, 1995

                      Anonymous   New faces: Copal -- FF Instanter --
                                  Magneto -- Neonstream -- Raceway --
                                  Rocket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
                      Anonymous   Briefly Noted: Walter Tracy -- Toronto
                                  font party -- Subiaco revival --
                                  Catalogs from Font Bureau and Precision
                                  Type -- Bitstream lawsuit -- Type on the
                                  information superhighway redux -- Carl
                                  Herzog award -- ATypI '95 -- FUSE '95    
                    D. A. Hosek   Which Caslon?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
              Robert Bringhurst   Painting with ink & steel: The roman &
                                  italic types of the baroque age  . . . . 
                    Robert Long   David Kindersley: In love with letters   
                 Stephen Lubell   On typographic style: A few thoughts on
                                  legibility, readability and typographic
                                  tradition  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
                    D. A. Hosek   O: The fifteenth letter of the alphabet  
                 Bonnie Barrett   Callifonts: Can a good font be made in
                                  two weeks? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
                      Anonymous   Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
                      Anonymous   Book reviews: \em Fleischmann on
                                  Punchcutting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
                      Anonymous   Book reviews: \em Twentieth Century Type
                                  Designers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
                      Anonymous   Book reviews: \em Letters of Credit  . . 


Serif: The Magazine of Type and Typography
Volume 4, Spring, 1996

                      Anonymous   New faces: Aries FH --- Borek ---
                                  Civilité MJ --- Duckling --- Jecho Techo
                                  One --- Kalendar . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--11
                      Anonymous   Briefly Noted: Typographic symposium and
                                  exposition --- FontHaus, A Monotype
                                  Company? --- The new x-height --- New
                                  Monotype CD --- ITC expansion --- Aldo
                                  Novarese -- Monotype University ---
                                  Typographic Circle debate --- ATypI '95
                                  --- The return of the bitmap . . . . . . 12--15
                    D. A. Hosek   Wessex: A look at a book face designed
                                  by Matthew Butterick . . . . . . . . . . 16--17
              Robert Bringhurst   The Invisible Hand Part One:
                                  Neoclassical Letterforms: An examination
                                  of the development of the neoclassical
                                  letterforms of such designers as
                                  Baskerville, Bell and Fournier . . . . . 19--29
                      Anonymous   1996 Typographic Design Competition:
                                  Information about entering the
                                  competition  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--31
                      Anonymous   A Conversation with Carlos Segura: We
                                  discuss grunge typography, typographic
                                  collage, readability and originality
                                  with Carlos Segura . . . . . . . . . . . 32--40
                     Theo Rehak   A Hitchhiker's Guide to Letterpress in
                                  the Twenty-first Century: An overview of
                                  methods for creating type for
                                  letterpress printing . . . . . . . . . . 42--45
               Beatrice Beaujon   Designing for Letter Paper: Dealing with
                                  the design challenges of the 8.5 by 11
                                  sheet of paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--51
             Christian Schwartz   House Industries: There Goes the
                                  Neighborhood: A look at a foundry
                                  producing grunge typography with a style
                                  of its own . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--57
                    D. A. Hosek   Technology: International Typefounders
                                  CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--59
                    D. A. Hosek   Book reviews: Finer Points in the
                                  Spacing & Arrangement of Type -- The Form
                                  of the Book: Essays on the Morality of
                                  Good Design -- The Art of Typography: An
                                  Introduction to Typo.icon.ography  . . . 60--62
                    D. A. Hosek   Endpapers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--64


Serif: The Magazine of Type and Typography
Volume 6, Spring, 1998

                Sean Wilmut and   
                  Lindsay Rollo   Letters: Reader Comments; On Readability 4--4
                      Anonymous   New Faces: Beata, Cresci, Donatello,
                                  Ghiberti, Pietra, Pontif, Simona . . . . 5--8
               Clive Bruton and   
                   Rod McDonald   Briefly Noted: ATypI Conference: 23--25
                                  October 1998, Lyon France; TypeCon 98:
                                  30 October--1 November 1998,
                                  Westborough, Massachusetts; Alphabets,
                                  Inc. Restructures; Adobe WebType;
                                  Microsoft OpenType Font Jamboree; 1997
                                  ATypI Conference, University of Reading  9-
                 Jorge Frascara   Design Education from Lettering to Human
                                  Interaction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--17
                    Allan Haley   Cool Cash for Hot Fonts  . . . . . . . . 19--22, 55
   Jean-François Porchez   Horizontalité . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--31
             Hans-Jurg Hunziker   The Typographic Work of Adrian Frutiger  32--43
                  Jeffery Keedy   A Type of Change . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--48, 50--51, 55
              Erik Van Blokland   The Supermarket Theory . . . . . . . . . 52--55
                    D. A. Hosek   Endpapers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--56