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 ...
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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.
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Filled with glimpses of history and many of the key figures in the world of typography, and occasionally witty and insightful by turns. Mr. Garfield's diverting romp through its topic too often bounces about: one more editorial pass would have made a more coherent and lasting job of work.
Gillink2
Apr 16, 2012
Good Read
It's great to read about the fonts and the geeks who designed them .As an amateur calligrapher I had only a passing knowledge of print fonts. The book widened my interest a great deal.
