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An edition of Just my type
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Just my type
a book about fonts
by Simon Garfield
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An edition of Just my type
(2010)
Just my type
a book about fonts
by Simon Garfield
- 3 Ratings
- 26 Want to read
- 0 Currently reading
- 4 Have read
Publish Date
2011
Publisher
Gotham Books
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A quick and personal tour through the past and present of fonts, their design, and use.
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Table of Contents
| Foreword by Chip Kidd | xi | |
| Introduction: Love Letters | 1 | |
| 1 | We don't serve your type | 9 |
| 2 | Capital Offence | 22 |
| Gill Sans | 41 | |
| 3 | Legibility vs Readability | 45 |
| Albertus | 62 | |
| 4 | Can a font make me popular? | 65 |
| Futura v Verdana | 73 | |
| 5 | The Hands of Unlettered Men | 77 |
| Doves | 84 | |
| 6 | The Ampersand's Final Twist | 89 |
| 7 | Baskerville is Dead (Long Live Baskerville) | 97 |
| Mrs eaves & Mr Eaves | 106 | |
| 8 | Tunnel Visions | 109 |
| 9 | What is it about the Swiss? | 124 |
| Frutiger | 139 | |
| 10 | Road Akzidenz | 143 |
| 11 | DIY | 158 |
| 12 | What the Font? | 172 |
| 13 | Can a font be German, or Jewish? | 180 |
| Futura | 193 | |
| 14 | American Scottish | 196 |
| Moderns, Egyptians and Fat Faces | 204 | |
| 15 | Gotham is Go | 208 |
| 16 | Pirates and Clones | 220 |
| Optima | 233 | |
| 17 | The Clamour from the Past | 235 |
| Sabon | 251 | |
| 18 | Breaking the Rules | 254 |
| The Interrobang | 268 | |
| 19 | The Serif of Liverpool | 270 |
| Vendome | 284 | |
| 20 | Fox, Gloves | 286 |
| 21 | The Worst Fonts in the World | 296 |
| 22 | Just My Type | 313 |
| Bibliography | 333 | |
| Online | 337 | |
| Acknowledgments | 339 | |
| Font and image credits | 343 | |
| Index | 345 |
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