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Just My Type

The original and best book about fonts

Simon Garfield (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

352 Seiten

2010 | Main
Profile Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84668-301-5 (ISBN)

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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, this title has the answer.

Just My Type is a book of stories. About how Helvetica and Comic Sans took over the world. About why Barack Obama opted for Gotham, while Amy Winehouse found her soul in 30s Art Deco. About the great originators of type, from Baskerville to Zapf, or people like Neville Brody who threw out the rulebook, or Margaret Calvert, who invented the motorway signs that are used from Watford Gap to Abu Dhabi. About the pivotal moment when fonts left the world of Letraset and were loaded onto computers ... and typefaces became something we realised we all have an opinion about.

Simon Garfield is the author of twelve acclaimed books of non-fiction including Mauve, The Error World and The Nation's Favourite. His edited diaries from the Mass Observation Archive - Our Hidden Lives, We Are At War and Private Battles - provided unique insights into the Second World War and its aftermath, and his study of Aids in Britain, The End of Innocence, won the Somerset Maugham prize. He lives in London and St Ives, Cornwall. He currently has a soft spot for Requiem Fine Roman and HT Gelateria.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	21.10.2010
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	145 x 214 mm
Gewicht	531 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
ISBN-10	1-84668-301-7 / 1846683017
ISBN-13	978-1-84668-301-5 / 9781846683015
Zustand	Neuware