Just My Type: A Book About Fonts

Author(s): Simon Garfield

Dictionaries, Language & Reference | Humour

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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Simon Garfield writes for the Observer about science, health and the arts. He is a former editor of Time Out, and his book The End of Innocence won the Somerset Maugham Prize. He has written and edited twelve books, including the bestselling Mass Observation diaries.

General Fields

  • : 9781846683015
  • : Profile Books Limited
  • : Profile Books Ltd
  • : 0.531
  • : July 2010
  • : 207mm X 135mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Simon Garfield
  • : Hardback
  • : Hardback
  • : 1
  • : 1
  • : English
  • : English
  • : 686.224
  • : 686.224
  • : 352
  • : 352
  • : ill
  • : ill