Just My Type: A Book about Fonts
What's your type? Suddenly everyone's obsessed with fonts. Whether you're enraged by Ikea's Verdanagate, want to know what the Beach Boys have in common with easy Jet or why it's okay to like Comic Sans, "Just My Type" will have the answer. Learn why using upper case got a New Zealand health...
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What's your type? Suddenly everyone's obsessed with fonts. Whether you're enraged by Ikea's Verdanagate, want to know what the Beach Boys have in common with easy Jet or why it's okay to like Comic Sans, "Just My Type" will have the answer. Learn why using upper case got a New Zealand health worker sacked. Refer to Prince in the Tafkap years as a Dingbat (that works on many levels). Spot where movies get their time periods wrong and don't be duped by fake posters on eBay. Simon Garfield meets the people behind the typefaces and along the way learns why some fonts - like men - are from Mars and some are from Venus. From type on the high street and album covers, to the print in our homes and offices, Garfield is the font of all types of knowledge.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781846683015 (1846683017)
Publish date: October 1st 2010
Publisher: Profile
Pages no: 351
Edition language: English
I really did enjoy this book, a short history of some fonts, quite readable, a bit idiosyncratic but enjoyable and fun. Simon Garfield has his opinion about some of the fonts, that I don't essentially agree with but it was an interesting read none-the-less. Some of the shennagins about some fonts ...
Updated - 7/9/13 - see link at bottomI am hardly a monogamous sort. I find that I am regularly attracted to different types. Sometimes I like them with big bowls. I am definitely fond of zaftig with strokable, curvy edges, sometimes I prefer something a bit more conservative, upright, familiar. And ...
Excellent Book! Informative and with wit
I really did enjoy this book, a short history of some fonts, quite readable, a bit idiosyncratic but enjoyable and fun. Simon Garfield has his opinion about some of the fonts, that I don't essentially agree with but it was an interesting read none-the-less. Some of the shennagins about some fonts we...
You may ask why so many different typefaces. They all serve the same purpose but they express man's diversity. It's the same diversity we find in wine. I once saw a list of Medoc wines featuring 60 different Medocs all of the same year. All of them were wines but each were different from the oth...
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