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Just My Type

a Book About Fonts
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Jul 09, 2022StephenWust rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
This is really a book about the personalities and situations related to different types, along with their uses and histories. Fascinating, but you have to appreciate such a thing to get the full flavor of this book. It is written in an…
Aug 21, 2020MT60 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
This gets a high rating because back in the 1970s I worked in the printing and typography fields, and I continued to use the principles learned through my later career. Love the depth of the material, and the features on some of the…
Jun 20, 2018AaronAardvark1940 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Nearly seven centuries have passed since Gutenberg's invention. Garfield discusses a bit of written communication that occurred before that time, and then spends a fair amount of time explaining what fonts are, how type was made, and how…
Nov 16, 2017mammothhawk229e rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Offbeat book on who created the fonts, who used them & how computers via word processing programs changed the game. There even a chapter on clone font where the variant was a tweaked to avoid copyright. The biggest transgressor was…
Mar 15, 2017KindleReader2014 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
For the reviewer below, the book was set in Sabon typeface (it says so about halfway through the book, on the upper half of a right side page somewhere). I've never heard of Sabon. Anyhow, this was an interesting book that tells you about…
BklynAmyM
Aug 30, 2016
Did you know that Comic Sans is considered the most accessible font for dyslexic children? That Matthew Carter, the inventor of Verdana, got his start at the Mergenthaler Linotype Company in Brooklyn? A lovingly crafted history of fonts,…
LoganLib_Adults
Apr 18, 2016
Quirky but fascinating book about the development of typeface, and what your chosen font says about you!
Polruan
Jul 14, 2015Polruan rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Quirky but fascinating book about the development of typeface, and what your chosen font says about you!
LDuke2012
Feb 27, 2013LDuke2012 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
This is my 2nd attempt to write a review on the book “Just My Type” by Simon Garfield. I wrote this lovely review that got eaten by my phone so here we go again. A causal browse through my bookshelves will indicate that a book called…
Aug 20, 2012d3chow rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Not a typical book I would read but browsed through it after seeing it on the Fast Reads section and seemed intriguing. Picked it up and turned out to be very interesting, informative and funny at times. A fun geeky read.
Jun 25, 2012GingerKaren rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This is about type, not personality type, but type. What you are reading now. and what you will be reading next. Font affects our emotions and our choices. Font makes us think of time past or present or future. And ever since…
Sep 05, 2011wac6 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Entertaining, covered a lot of ground, moved quickly. Book is well written and well designed. A pleasure.
Jul 15, 2011
saw a review of this book, fonts and types have been interesting to me since computer programs such as coral draw, and photoshop