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Just My Type: a book about fonts / Garfield, Simon ; Kidd C ; Baines P ; Banks C ; Cobden-Sanderson TJ ; Daines M ; Dwiggens WA ; Frutiger A ; Gill E ; Kindersley D ; Koch R ; Lichtenstein R ; Licko Z ; Lubalin H ; Morris W ; Ono Y ; Peignot C ; Spiekermann E ; Tschichold J ; Vignelli M ; VanderLans R ; Warde B ; Zapf H., 2011

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Identifier: CC-53250-74402
Scope and Contents Rob Hardy Amazon.com review: You are looking at it right now, and if it is doing its job, you don't even notice it. It might represent a creation that has taken centuries to come to its current state of perfection, or it might be something that a dedicated specialist worked on for years and brought out a decade ago. It represents artistry directed within a circumscribed realm. I am talking about the font in which these letters are presented. Thirty years ago, fonts were usually the interest of only a select few in the printing world, but now every computer is charged with fonts and everyone gets to be an amateur typographer (technically, the font is a specific set of metal parts, or digital files, that allows reproduction of letters, and a typeface is the design of letters the font allows you to reproduce, but you can see how the words would get used interchangeably). Simon Garfield is not a professional typographer; his role is bringing out fine nonfiction about, say, stamp...
Dates: 2011