Product Description

What's your type? Suddenly everyone's obsessed with fonts. Whether you're enraged by Ikea's Verdanagate, want to know what the Beach Boys have in common with easy Jet or why it's okay to like Comic Sans, this title has the answer.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4263 in Books
• Published on: 2010-10-21
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .0 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 352 pages

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• Dispatch same day for order received before 12 noon
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Review
Garfield says he's unable to walk past a sign until he has identified the typeface. Now, neither can we.' --Monocle

'A fascinating and quirky new book' --Nigel Farndale, Sunday Telegraph

'Hugely entertaining ... a lively history.' --Sunday Business Post

`A celebration of our way with words' --Observer

`Whether you're a graphics geek or have never given typeography a second thought, don't miss this quirky font fest.' --Lauren Laverne, Grazia

'A quirky introduction to fonts... Simon Garfield is careful to tickle as much as he teaches.' -- Peter Robins, Daily Telegraph

'His book comprises dozens of lovely vignettes, anecdotes that make a potentially dusty subject utterly compelling.' --Independent on Sunday

'A joy to look at as well as to read... encapsulates the romance and magical possibilities of type.' -- Sunday Business Post

`Chatty, anecdotal ... illuminates even a walk to the shops' --Sunday Times

`Just My Type is a font fanatic's dream' -- Word

`Superb... a fascinating and funny book that delves into the history and oddities of typefaces throughout the ages.' -- Big Issue

`Enthralling... fascinating... strikes a great balance between fact and humour. Reading this book may just change your life.' -- Time Out

`He's extremely knowledgeable about type history while ignoring the politics and egos.' --Steven Heller, FT

`A whistle-stop tour of fonts... Garfield's book will open your eyes to the array of typefaces that demand our attention.' -- Emma Hagestadt, The Lady

`Garfield is an entertaining and congenial guide to this ubiquitous but little-known world.' --Literary Review

From the Back Cover
'Enthralling ... fascinating... strikes a great balance between fact and humour. Reading this book may just change your life' Time Out Just My Type is a book of stories. About how Helvetica and Comic Sans took over the world. About why Barack Obama opted for Gotham, while Amy Winehouse found her soul in 30s Art Deco. About the great originators of type, from Baskerville to Zapf, or people like Neville Brody who threw out the rulebook. About the pivotal moment when fonts left the world of Letraset and were loaded onto computers ... and typefaces became something we realised we all have an opinion about. And beyond all this, Just My Type reveals what may be the very best and worst fonts in the world - and what your choice of font says about you. 'Brilliant ... don't miss this quirky, fact-filled font fest' Lauren Laverne

About the Author
Simon Garfield is the author of twelve acclaimed books of non-fiction including Mauve, The Error World and The Nation's Favourite. His edited diaries from the Mass Observation Archive - Our Hidden Lives, We Are At War and Private Battles - provided unique insights into the Second World War and its aftermath, and his study of Aids in Britain, The End of Innocence, won the Somerset Maugham prize. He lives in London and St Ives, Cornwall. He currently has a soft spot for Requiem Fine Roman and HT Gelateria.