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Just My Type: A Book About Fonts
by Simon Garfield
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1846683017
- ISBN 13
- 9781846683015
- Seller
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Bucknell, Shropshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Profile Books, 2010-10-21. Hardcover. Very Good. **HARDBACK** In unclipped dustjacket; previous owner inscription on ffep
Synopsis
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 product we buy. But where do fonts come from, and why do we need so many? Who is responsible for the staid practicality of Times New Roman, the cool anonymity of Arial, or the irritating levity of Comic Sans (and the movement to ban it)? Typefaces are now 560 years old, but we barely knew their names until about twenty years ago when the pull-down font menus on our first computers made us all the gods of type. Beginning in the early days of Gutenberg and ending with the most adventurous digital fonts, Simon Garfield explores the rich history and subtle powers of type. He goes on to investigate a range of modern mysteries, including how Helvetica took over the world, what inspires the seeming ubiquitous use of Trajan on bad movie posters, and exactly why the all-type cover of Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus was so effective. It also examines why the "T" in the Beatles logo is longer than the other letters and how Gotham helped Barack Obama into the White House. A must-have book for the design conscious, Just My Type 's cheeky irreverence will also charm everyone who loved Eats, Shoots & Leaves and Schott's Original Miscellany .
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- Bookseller
- Aardvark Books LTd
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- mon0000269930
- Title
- Just My Type: A Book About Fonts
- Author
- Simon Garfield
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1846683017
- ISBN 13
- 9781846683015
- Publisher
- Profile Books
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2010-10-21
- Size
- 3.4010 20.9898 14.5939
- X weight
- 0.5399 kg
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