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Just My Type
Just My Type
Subtitle:
A Book About Fonts
Book Category:
Reference > General
Author:
Simon Garfield
Binding:
Hardcover
ISBN 10:
1846683017
ISBN 13:
9781846683015
Price:
GPB 14.99
Publication Year:
2010

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Just My Type is 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.