Just my type a book about fonts
Garfield, Simon
Just my type a book about fonts - New York Avery 2012 - xxviii,356p.
Contents
Foreword by Chip Kidd xii
Introduction : Love Letters 1
Periodic Table of Typefaces 6-7
1 We don't serve you type
2. Capital Offence 22
Gill Sane 41
3 Legibility vs Readability 46
Albertus 62
4. Can a font make me popolari 65
Futura v Verdana 73
5 The Hands of Unlettered Man 77
Doves 84
6 The Ampersand's Final Twist 29
7 Baskerville is Dead Long Live Raskervilles
Mrs Eaves & Mr Raves 106
8 Tunnel Visions 109
9 What is it about the Swas? 124
Frutiger 139
10 Road Akzidenz 143
11 DIY 158
12 What the font? 172
13 Can a font be German, or Jewish?180
Furura 193
14 American Scottish 196
Moderns, Egyptians and Fat Faces
15 Gotham is Go 208
16 Pirates and Clones 220
Optima 233
17 The Clamour from the Past 235
Sabon 251
18 Breaking the Rules 254
The Interrobang 268
19 The Serif of Liverpool 270
Vendôme 284
20 Fox, Gloves 286
21 The Worst Fonts in the World 296
22 Just My Type 313
Bibliography 333
Online 337
Acknowledgements 339
Font and image credits 343
Index 345
9781592407460
745.61 / GAR
Just my type a book about fonts - New York Avery 2012 - xxviii,356p.
Contents
Foreword by Chip Kidd xii
Introduction : Love Letters 1
Periodic Table of Typefaces 6-7
1 We don't serve you type
2. Capital Offence 22
Gill Sane 41
3 Legibility vs Readability 46
Albertus 62
4. Can a font make me popolari 65
Futura v Verdana 73
5 The Hands of Unlettered Man 77
Doves 84
6 The Ampersand's Final Twist 29
7 Baskerville is Dead Long Live Raskervilles
Mrs Eaves & Mr Raves 106
8 Tunnel Visions 109
9 What is it about the Swas? 124
Frutiger 139
10 Road Akzidenz 143
11 DIY 158
12 What the font? 172
13 Can a font be German, or Jewish?180
Furura 193
14 American Scottish 196
Moderns, Egyptians and Fat Faces
15 Gotham is Go 208
16 Pirates and Clones 220
Optima 233
17 The Clamour from the Past 235
Sabon 251
18 Breaking the Rules 254
The Interrobang 268
19 The Serif of Liverpool 270
Vendôme 284
20 Fox, Gloves 286
21 The Worst Fonts in the World 296
22 Just My Type 313
Bibliography 333
Online 337
Acknowledgements 339
Font and image credits 343
Index 345
9781592407460
745.61 / GAR