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Just My Type: A Book about Fonts
by Garfield, Simon
- New
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 1846683017
- ISBN 13
- 9781846683015
- Seller
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Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
Profile Books, 2010. 1st Edition . Hardcover. New/New. New, May Have Minor Shelf Wear To Dust Jacket. - For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. What's Your Type? Suddenly Everyone's Obsessed With Fonts. Whether You're Enraged By Ikea's Verdanagate, Want To Know What The Beach Boys Have In Common With Easy Jet Or Why It's Okay To Like Comic Sans, Just My Type Will Have The Answer. Learn Why Using Upper Case Got A New Zealand Health Worker Sacked. Refer To Prince In The Tafkap Years As A Dingbat (That Works On Many Levels). Spot Where Movies Get Their Time Periods Wrong And Don't Be Duped By Fake Posters On . Simon Garfield Meets The People Behind The Typefaces And Along The Way Learns Why Some Fonts - Like Men - Are From Mars And Some Are From Venus. From Type On The High Street And Album Covers, To The Print In Our Homes And Offices, Garfield Is The Font Of All Types Of Knowledge.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Alright Bookstore
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006386
- Title
- Just My Type: A Book about Fonts
- Author
- Garfield, Simon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1846683017
- ISBN 13
- 9781846683015
- Publisher
- Profile Books
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2010
- Pages
- 352
- Keywords
- Design, Font, Printing, Press, Paper, Type, Printers, Tray, Printmaking, Graphic Arts
- Bookseller catalogs
- Crafts - Hobbies;
- X weight
- 800 g
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