Just My Type (inbunden)
Format
B Format Paperback
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
352
Utgivningsdatum
2011-09-22
Förlag
Profile Books Ltd
Dimensioner
197 x 128 x 25 mm
Vikt
380 g
ISBN
9781846683022

Just My Type

The original and best book about fonts

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B Format Paperback,  Engelska, 2011-09-22
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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.

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  1. Intressant men nördig
    Lars Erik Morin, 26 november 2015

    Sträckläste den här, fast på svenska ("Precis min typ"). Retade mej på att översättningen var konstig bitvis. T ex var "ink" översatt med bläck, något som hör till bläckstråleskrivare och reservoarpennor. I tidningar och böcker heter det tryckfärg.

    Sen köpte jag den på engelska för att jämföra.

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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 - were bestsellers, and his study of Aids in Britain, The End of Innocence, won the Somerset Maugham prize. He lives in London and St Ives, Cornwall.