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Original Title:	Just My Type: A Book About Fonts
ISBN:	1592406521 (ISBN13: 9781592406524)
Edition Language:	English

Just My Type: A Book About Fonts

Simon Garfield

Hardcover | Pages: 384 pages

Rating: 3.83 | 37024 Users | 1344 Reviews

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Title	:	Just My Type: A Book About Fonts
Author	:	Simon Garfield
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 384 pages
Published	:	September 1st 2011 by Gotham (first published October 21st 2010)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Design. Art. History

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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, Just My Type will have the answer. Learn why using upper case got a New Zealand health worker sacked. Refer to Prince in the Tafkap years as a Dingbat (that works on many levels). Spot where movies get their time periods wrong and don’t be duped by fake posters on eBay. Simon Garfield meets the people behind the typefaces and along the way learns why some fonts – like men – are from Mars and some are from Venus. From type on the high street and album covers, to the print in our homes and offices, Garfield is the font of all types of knowledge.

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Ratings: 3.83 From 37024 Users | 1344 Reviews

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Im only just on target with my challenge, and I think this is because this is another genre of books that I am not swift at reading! I would normally dip into books like this and going at it all in one go wasnt difficult, but I did go a day every now and again where I didnt pick this up I think this is mainly because this topic is linked to my job and after spending all day designing and looking at typefaces, occasionally (as much as I love the subject!) I didnt want to then carry on reading

The language of letter meets the language of Art and its one hell of a rave.The dustcover of Just My Font gets the party going. Heavy metal, hot type, eight eclectic fonts; none of which Id heard of : Adriator Regular, Aeronaut, Flirt Bold, Cyclone, Adam Gorry-Inline, Shuttlestock Decorative Alphabet, PopUps, and Polytone Reliant are just some of the actors and actresses in this play. What a party! Mind-altering drugs not required.Having been slapped in the face by the equivalent of a basket of

This book is seemingly written for a niche audience - the sort of people who talk about fonts the way others might talk about wine, or who spot typeface anachronisms in movies. I am not in this crowd, though I did have a favorite font in high school (ITC Officina Sans, mentioned on page 182) and a month ago I pondered aloud the different fonts used on Interstate signs (this topic is also covered!). So when this book was mentioned in an article on Slate.com I had enough mild interest to look it

This book is seemingly written for a niche audience - the sort of people who talk about fonts the way others might talk about wine, or who spot typeface anachronisms in movies. I am not in this crowd, though I did have a favorite font in high school (ITC Officina Sans, mentioned on page 182) and a month ago I pondered aloud the different fonts used on Interstate signs (this topic is also covered!). So when this book was mentioned in an article on Slate.com I had enough mild interest to look it

Who Knew?If the reader is looking for a book that simply places full alphabet pages of the various typefaces or fonts available today, this is not the book you're looking for. Yes, all of those fonts form the beginning of printing to the present are indeed present in Simon Garfield's JUST MY TYPE but instead of a study book of fonts, this is a commentary on the history of fonts that is tremendously entertaining as well as informative. Some features one would not expect in a book of this nature

Just think - Garfield reminds us - before the personal computer most people knew next to nothing about typeface. But once we were given the opportunity to use it, we took off and often overdid it, used the same typeface for everything (comic sans), or used multiple typefaces on a page rather than bothering with expressive language. But that was part of the learning process and most of us settled in to a few reliable typefaces, which we call fonts. That's another thing I like about this author.

The fact that this book was immensely popular when first published in 2010/11 speaks well for the interest in its subject matter. Going from the general responses of Goodreads readers, I feel that simply referring readers of my review to those comments as more than adequately covering the matter. For those not aware of what fonts are, and how they are present everywhere in our consumer world, then this book is a must and I might even suggest a 5 star rating for them.This is undoubtedly a fun