Fra Luca de Pacioli kabakabakaba which showcase pioneering work in

which showcase pioneering work in information design

With a wealth of iconic works as well as finds from the family’s private archive unpublished to date

beautifully reproduced and with an introduction by Mark Argetsinger

this pair of hand-printed aquatints feature Matthew Carter’s stunning lowercase a from his presently-unreleased Big Fry and a z inspired by a sixteenth-century italic attributed to the French punchcutter Pierre Haultin

Fra Luca de Pacioli kabakabakaba which showcase pioneering work inHeres a little Bruce Rogers number with an essay by Stanley Morison (who initialed it) and a bibliography by Philip Hofer. In between is the work of Luca de Pacioli, who you know as the first person to publish a work on the double entry system of bookkeeping, a precursor to QuickBooks. He also prepared this treatise on geometry and beauty and their application to roman letters. It predates similar explorations by Albrecht Drer and Geoffrey Tory and