Just My Type: A Book About Fonts
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781101552117 (1101552115)
Publish date: September 1st 2011
Publisher: Penguin
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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