Dutch
Type. By Jan Middendorp. 010 Publishers, the Netherlands.
Publication date: December 2003
Dutch Type is the recipient of universal acclaim. Typefaces by Jan
van Krimpen, Gerard Unger and Bram de Does are regarded internationally
as normative. A younger generation of designers – amongst whom
Fred Smeijers, Martin Majoor, Lucas de Groot and the duo Just van
Rossum and Erik Blokland, alias LettError – is designing digital
letters of a quality that according to the British critic Robin Kinross,
is unequalled in any other country.
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“Dutch Type” is
the first overview of this field in which the Netherlands excels.
Charting the current state of play, the book shows how today's practice
reaches back to the achievements and insights of the past.
An exhaustive overview of the landscape of Dutch Type today is preceded
by several chapters that illuminate the history and development of
the styles of typography and production techniques for the non-specialist
as well.
The lavishly illustrated volume looks not just at the types themselves
but at their application too: research into styles of type, after
all, cannot be regarded separately from the practice of typography
and graphic design.
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