Just My Type
Simon Garfield
The stories behind the world's most familiar fonts and why they provoke such strong feelings.
About this book
Just My Type asks where fonts come from, why we need so many of them, and who is behind faces such as Times New Roman, Arial or Comic Sans. Simon Garfield sets out to answer those questions and to single out the world's finest and worst fonts. The book runs from the early Gutenberg era to adventurous digital fonts, unpicking a long-standing obsession with how our words look. Along the way Garfield examines a set of modern mysteries, from Helvetica's spread to what makes a font look presidential or German.
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