Stanley Morison

Stanley Morison ( born May 6, 1889 in Wanstead, England; † October 11, 1967 in London) was a British typographer and font historian.

Life and work

From 1923 until his death he was artistic adviser to the Monotype Corporation and is responsible for the extraordinary growth of its font library. From 1929 to 1960 he was also active as artistic adviser for the daily newspaper The Times. This activity also led to the well -known developed by Morison Scripture: The Times. She found in the issue of October 3, 1932 for the first time use. Another of Morison's writings is the 1929 -released Bembo, named after the Cardinal Pietro Bembo, whose treatise De Aetna in 1495 printed in a font that served as a model for modern Bembo. From 1935 to 1951 he published a four -volume work on the history of The Times. He was a corresponding member of the Grolier Club.

His library of approximately 6,000 volumes came in 1968 in the Cambridge University Library.

Works

  • Four Centuries of fine print, London 1924
  • The English newspaper, 1622-1932, Cambridge 1932
  • First Principles of Typography, Cambridge 1936, ISBN 0-521-05768- X
  • A tally of types, Cambridge 1953, ISBN 1-567-92004-7
  • Basic rules of typography, German Berlin 1955
  • Handbook of fonts, German Leipzig 1926
  • Type forms of the past and modern times, German Hellerau 1928
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