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Just My Type

a Book About Fonts
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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 the main fonts in life (Helvetica, Arial, Gill Sans, Verdana, Futura, Bodoni, etc.) and their history (who developed them, what year, their design goals, etc.) I liked that it mentioned which fonts (typefaces, to be precise) are used most often for various purposes and steered me in the right direction for picking a font for some generic uses. The print book was nice because sometimes it showed several fonts side by side so you could compare them easily.