A typographer – an artist or a craftsman?
Abstract
Not an author, not an editor, nor even a proofreader – yet, this person can change/influence the final shape of a text. It’s a typographer, whose main responsibility is the technical preperation of the text for the publication. One can only speculate as to the specifics of this vocation: is he an artist who, along with an author, shapes the text, or is he merely a craftsman? This article offers the description of this profession based on opinions of typography experts.References
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Published
2012-09-17
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