London: Profile Books, 2010. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper.. First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (blue boards with silver titling to the spine) Physically 8½” x 5½” (1 kg); 352pp; Index; Bibliography; Includes: Black & white photographs, within the text; Black & white drawings; Illustrated lining papers; ISBN: 978-1-8466-8301-5 || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #197633|| Condition:

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A hugely entertaining and revealing guide to the history of type that asks, What does your favorite font say about you? Fonts surround us every day, on street signs and buildings, on movie posters and books, and on just about every product we buy. But where do fonts come from, and why do we need so many? Who is responsible for the staid practicality of Times New Roman, the cool anonymity of Arial, or the irritating levity of Comic Sans (and the movement to ban it)? Typefaces are now 560 years old, but we barely knew their names until about twenty years ago when the pull-down font menus on our first computers made us all the gods of type. Beginning in the early days of Gutenberg and ending with the most adventurous digital fonts, Simon Garfield explores the rich history and subtle powers of type. He goes on to investigate a range of modern mysteries, including how Helvetica took over the world, what inspires the seeming ubiquitous use of Trajan on bad movie posters, and exactly why the all-type cover of Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus was so effective. It also examines why the "T" in the Beatles logo is longer than the other letters and how Gotham helped Barack Obama into the White House. A must-have book for the design conscious, Just My Type 's cheeky irreverence will also charm everyone who loved Eats, Shoots & Leaves and Schott's Original Miscellany .

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Bookseller: BookLovers of Bath (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 197633
Title: Just My Type: A Book About Fonts
Author: Simon Garfield
Format/Binding: Hardback in Dust Wrapper.
Book Condition: Used - Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper.
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1846683017
ISBN 13: 9781846683015
Publisher: London: Profile Books
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 2010
Keywords: type founding, graphic design, typography, history book printing, history book binding, book design, technology typography, printing trades, graphic arts, lettering, typefaces, first edition books, books by simon garfield, 978-1-8466-8301-5, photographic

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