%0 Journal Article
%A Rial Costas, Benito
%T Typefaces, Fonts, and Types: Toward a Classification of Fifteenth-Century Gothic  ‘Types´
%D 2016
%@ 0163-9374
%U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/98980
%X For more than a century, librarians and bibliographers have supposedly identified and cataloged gothic types using the Proctor-Haebler system and many incunabula collections have been described using it. It is now widely accepted that the Proctor-Haebler system's nomenclature and techniques are uniform and consistent for cataloging rare books and that it is informative about types. This article explains that although the Proctor-Haebler system may help us to identify a printer or a printing office, it confounds different typographic concepts (typeface, font, and type), uses contradictory methods, is based on weak or arguable assumptions, and does not inform us about “types.”
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