Book

Just my type: a book about fonts

by  Simon Garfield

Description

A romp through the history of fonts and the lives of the great typographers, revealing the extent to which fonts are not only shaped by but also define the world in which we live

Table Of Contents

  • Love letters
  • We don't serve your type
  • Capital offence
  • Gill Sans
  • Legibility vs readability
  • Albertus
  • Can a font make me popular?
  • Futura v Verdana
  • The hands of unlettered men
  • Doves
  • The ampersand's final twist
  • Baskerville is dead (long live Baskerville)
  • Mrs. Eaves & Mr. Eaves
  • Tunnel visions
  • What is it about the Swiss
  • Frutiger
  • Road akzidenz
  • DIY
  • What the font?
  • Can a font be German, or Jewish
  • Futura
  • American Scottish
  • Moderns, Egyptians, and fat faces
  • Gotham is go
  • Pirates and clones
  • Optima
  • The clamour from the past
  • Sabon
  • Breaking the rules
  • The interrobang
  • The serif of Liverpool
  • Vendome
  • Fox, gloves
  • The worst fonts in the world
  • Just my type

Subject

History / Miscellanea / Type and type-founding / Graphic design (Typography)

Details

Published New York, NY : Gotham Books, 2011
Language English
Material xii, 356 p.
ISBN 1846683025 / 9781846683022
Location
TCDC Bangkok - Closed Stack

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