by Simon Garfield
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 500 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. The book is about
that pivotal moment when fonts left the world of Letraset and were
loaded onto computers, and typefaces became something we realized we
all have an opinion about. And beyond all this, the book reveals what
may be the very best and worst fonts in the world – and what your
choice of font says about you. -- from www.simongarfield.com
To read an extract from the book visit Simon Garfield's website.
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