Ebook {Epub PDF} Just My Type: A Book About Fonts by Simon Garfield

 · Just My Type: A Book About Fonts. Just My Type.: Simon Garfield. Penguin, Sep 1, - Design - pages. 64 Reviews. A hugely entertaining and revealing guide to the history of type that asks, What does your favorite font say about you? Fonts surround us every day, on street signs and buildings, on movie posters and books, and on just about 4/5(61). Simon Garfield's recent publication, Just my type, is, for lack of a better word - cool. Books are sold by their covers, and Just my type reveals how the typeface used on those book covers is an integral part of the artistic design of that cover, and how the font selected for the text affects the readability within/5(). Just my type: a book about fonts. Garfield, Simon. 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.

Typefaces are now years old, but we barely knew their names until about twenty years ago when the pull-down font menus on our first computers made us all the gods of type. Beginning in the early days of Gutenberg and ending with the most adventurous digital fonts, Simon Garfield explores the rich history and subtle powers of type. Simon Garfield. Profile Books, - Reference - pages. 65 Reviews. 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. Simon Garfield's Just My Type, published in England by the same people who brought us Eats, Shoots Leaves, hopes to do for type fonts what Lynne Truss' surprise best-seller did for commas. For.

Just My Type by Simon Garfield is the perfect book to read for all designers. Learn some crazy stories about the power of type!. Just My Type: A Book About Fonts: Author: Simon Garfield: Publisher: Penguin, ISBN: , Length: pages: Subjects. Just My Type is a book of stories about fonts. It examines how Helvetica and Comic Sans took over the world. It explains why we are still influenced by type choices made more than years ago, and why the T in the Beatles logo is longer than the other letters. It profiles the great originators of type, from Baskerville to Zapf, as well as people like Neville Brody who threw out the rulebook.