Modern Typography

Building on the premise of Jürgen Habermas that modernity is an "unfinished project", Robin Kinross sets out the beginnings of a true modern practice of typography around 1700, with the publication, in England, of the first typography treaty, the Mechanik exercises (1683-1684) by Joseph Moxon, and the creation of the king's Roman in France. He delivers here a history of modern typography envisaged in a broad sense, far beyond formal modernism, favoring approaches and practitioners who, in Europe or the United States, have known articulate knowledge and practice - like English reformers or members of the new typography. Robin Kinross