Fra Luca de Pacioli kabakabakaba beautifully reproduced and with an

beautifully reproduced and with an introduction by Mark Argetsinger

from the areas of design

the nice thing is that this is printed in spot colors

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

It was intended to be both an aide-mémoire of that exhibition

Fra Luca de Pacioli kabakabakaba beautifully reproduced and with anHeres 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