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Now garfield takes on a subject even dearer to our fanatical human hearts. About the great originators of type, from baskerville to zapf, or people like. It explains why we are still influenced by type choices made more than 500 years ago, and why the t in the beatles logo is longer than the other letters. A book about fonts by simon garfield is a nonfiction book about fonts. A book about fonts is a nonfiction book by simon garfield, a british journalist and nonfiction author. With a variety of recent, newsmaking examples and font samples throughout, just my type explains how and why certain fonts can elicit. Aug 28, 2011 now comes fellow briton simon garfield to try the same trick with just my type, a book about typefaces their history, popularity and characteristics. All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and protected by us and international laws. Just my type is a litte book on typefaces and printing directed to the layman, not the professional or type aficionado. In these extracts from his book, the author looks at how. I also found the brief discussions of the legal issues faced by type designers educational. For on the map and just my type annamarie fitzgerald profile books 3 holford yard.
Reading simon garfield s just my type can transform your daily life into an endless quest for knowledge of the typefaces in which signs, books, magazines, newspapers, etc. He is a trustee of mass observation, and is the editor of several books of diaries from the archive, including our hidden lives and a notable woman. A hugely entertaining and revealing guide to the history of type that asks, what does your favorite font say about you. Yes, all of those fonts form the beginning of printing to the present are indeed present in simon garfield s just my type but instead of a study book of fonts, this is a commentary on the history of fonts that is tremendously entertaining as well as informative. About how helvetica and comic sans took over the world. Typefaces are now 560 years old, but we barely knew their names until about twenty. You could check out the link page that we provide and then purchase the book to make a deal. Just my type is not just a font book, but a book of stories. Listen to unlimited audiobooks on the web, ipad, iphone and android. He is the author of an appealingly diverse and unpredictable canon of nonfiction, including the bestsellers mauve, just my type and on the map.
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