Just My Type is not just a font book, but 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.
As the Sunday Times review put it, the book is 'a kind of Eats, Shoots and Leaves for letters, revealing the extent to which fonts are not only shaped by but also define the world in which we live.'
This edition is available with both black and silver covers.
- 352 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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Topic
DesignSubtopic
TypographyTable of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction: Love Letters
- 1 We don’t serve your type
- 2 Capital Offence
- 3 Legibility vs Readability
- 4 Can a font make me popular?
- 5 The Hands of Unlettered Men
- 6 The Ampersand’s Final Twist
- 7 Baskerville is Dead (Long Live Baskerville)
- 8 Tunnel Visions
- 9 What is it about the Swiss?
- 10 Road Akzidenz
- 11 DIY
- 12 What the Font?
- 13 Can a font be German, or Jewish?
- 14 American Scottish
- 15 Gotham is Go
- 16 Pirates and Clones
- 17 The Clamour from the Past
- 18 Breaking the Rules
- 19 The Serif of Liverpool
- 20 Fox, Gloves
- 21 The Worst Fonts in the World
- 22 Just My Type
- Bibliography
- Online
- Acknowledgements
- Font and image credits
- Index
- Footnotes
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