Modernity, method and minimal means: typewriters, typing manuals and document design
- Submitting institution
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The University of Reading
: B - Typography and Graphic Communication
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory : B - Typography and Graphic Communication
- Output identifier
- 69514
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1093/jdh/epx018
- Title of journal
- Journal of Design History
- Article number
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- First page
- 138
- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- 2
- ISSN
- 1741-7279
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This essay is about the previously unacknowledged contribution that typing manuals and typists have made to the history of graphic language and communication design, and the role that typewriter composition has played in typographic education and design practice, particularly in the 1960s and 1970s. The limited technical capabilities of typewriters are discussed in relation to the rules in typing manuals for articulating and organising the structure of text. The work draws on a detailed study of manuals that were used to train typists who went on to produce documents of considerable complexity within what typographers would consider to be minimal means in terms of flexibility in the use of letterforms and space.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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