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100 1 _aGarfield, Simon.
_9104836
245 1 0 _aJust my type :
_ba book about fonts /
_cSimon Garfield.
260 _aNew York :
_bGotham Books,
_c2011, c2010.
300 _a356 p. :
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_c22 cm.
500 _aOriginally published: London : Profile Books, 2010.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [333]-335) and index.
505 0 _aintroduction : love letters -- We don’t serve your type -- Capital offence ; Gill Sans -- Legibility vs readability ; Albertus -- Can a font make me popular? ; Futura v Verdana -- The hands of unlettered men ; Doves -- The ampersand’s final twist -- Baskerville is dead (long live Baskerville) ; Mrs. Eaves & Mr. Eaves -- Tunnel visions -- What is it about the Swiss? ; Frutiger -- Road Akzidenz -- DIY -- What the font? -- Can a font be German, or Jewish? ; Futura -- American Scottish ; Moderns, Egyptians, and fat faces -- Gotham is go -- Pirates and clones ; Optima -- The clamour from the past ; Sabon -- Breaking the rules ; The interrobang -- The Serif of Liverpool ; Vendôme -- Fox, gloves -- The worst fonts in the world -- Just my type.
520 _aA romp through the history of fonts and the lives of the great typographers, revealing the extent to which fonts are not only shaped by but also define the world in which we live.
650 0 _aType and type-founding.
_9104842
650 0 _aGraphic design (Typography)
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