Typefaces, Fonts, and Types: Toward a Classification of Fifteenth-Century Gothic ‘Types´

Rial Costas, Benito2024-02-052024-02-052016Benito Rial Costas (2016) Typefaces, Fonts, and Types: Toward a Classification of Fifteenth-Century Gothic “Types”, Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 54:5-6, 384-396, DOI: 10.1080/01639374.2016.11904370163-937410.1080/01639374.2016.1190437https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/98980For 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.”engAttribution 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Typefaces, Fonts, and Types: Toward a Classification of Fifteenth-Century Gothic ‘Types´Tipos de letra, fuentes y tipos: hacia una clasificación de los “tipos” góticos del siglo XVjournal article1544-4554https://doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2016.1190437https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01639374.2016.1190437metadata only accessProctorHaeblerTypographyIncunabulaBibliographyTypographic analysisHumanidades62 Ciencias de las Artes y las Letras