Symbolenboek voor onderwijs en statistiek (Symbols for education and statistics: 1928–1965) RainbowBooks and exhibitions

and exhibitions

We’re just gonna rip this description straight from Jerry Kelly’s One Hundred Books Famous in Typography because it’s cold and our fingers are stiff and we can just copy this text from the book with our camera and paste it here:

capable of serving all practical purposes

See what you missed so you can be prepared for the next Zapf-related exhibition

Writing beautifully is an art

Symbolenboek voor onderwijs en statistiek (Symbols for education and statistics: 1928–1965) RainbowBooks and exhibitionsThe graphic symbols that have been collected together in this volume constitute a selection from among the more than 4000 symbols designed by the graphic artist Gerd Arntz between 1928 and 1956. (We cant bring ourselves to count how many symbols are here, but there are 117 leaves of them. If there are 12 symbols per leaf, that means there are over 1,400 symbols!) Their most important function was to be used in picture statistics. When this was