Just My Type A Book about Fonts

Name: Just My Type A Book about Fonts
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ISBN: 9781592407460

ISBN-10: 1592407463

ISBN-13: 9781592407460

Edition: 2012

Authors: Simon Garfield, Chip Kidd

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A delightfully inquisitive tour that explores the rich history and the subtle powers of fonts. Fonts surround us every day, on street signs and buildings, on movie posters and books, and on just about every product that we buy. But where do fonts come from and why do we need so many? Who is behind the businesslike subtlety of Times New Roman, the cool detachment of Arial, or the maddening lightness of Comic Sans (and the movement to ban it)? Simon Garfield embarks on a mission to answer these questions and more, and reveal what may be the very best and worst fonts in the world. Typefaces are now 560 years old, but we barely knew their names until about twenty years ago, when the pull-down…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/4/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.52" wide x 8.20" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.660

Simon Garfield is the author of several acclaimed books, including "The End of the Innocence: Britain in the Time of AIDS", winner of the Somerset Maugham Award. He lives in London.



Foreword



Introduction: Love Letters


Periodic Table of Typefaces



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


Vendï¿½me



Fox, Gloves



The Worst Fonts in the World



Just My Type


Bibliography


Online


Acknowledgements


Font and image credits


Index