Just My Type: A Book about Fonts
Simon Garfield,Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Simon Garfield,Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Format: Textbook
ASIN: 9781592406524
Publish date: 01-09-2011
Publisher: Penguin
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Writing,
History,
Reference,
Humanities,
Language,
Books About Books,
Adult,
Art,
Design,
Art Design
Large swaths of this book are excellent. There are a few chapters I could have done without, such as the chapter on font personality quizzes, but overall, this is a good introduction to many different fonts. I read the ebook and was pleasantly surprised to see so many of the fonts actually embedded ...
Rating: 4.5* of five The Book Report: The book description says: A hugely entertaining and revealing guide to the history of type that asks, What does your favorite font say about you?Fonts surround us every day, on street signs and buildings, on movie posters and books, and on just about every pro...
This book is a must read for anyone who is interested in graphic design, or who wondering why one edition of the same book is so much easier to read than another. Or someone who has ever read a piece of type set information anywhere ever.Just My Type covers history of type setting beginning with Gut...
Book of the Weekfradio R4Book of the Weeknon-fictioncomputershistoryRead by Julian Rhind Tutt blub - From type on the high street and book covers, to the print in our homes and offices, our world is surrounded by and spelt out by fonts. Little do we realise how our everyday choices are subtly inform...
Most people don't think about fonts very often, but we do tend to have a gut reaction to some. What Garfield does is explain the history of printing, and introduce the reader to the many unsung geniuses who make all the printing we see every day invisible. I don't imagine I'll ever become someone wh...
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