Just my type
Subtitle: a book about fonts
Publisher: Gotham Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, USA
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9781592406524
Copyright date: 2010
Description: A romp through the history of fonts and the lives of the great typographers, revealing the extent to which fonts are not only shaped by but also define the world in which we live.
Table of contents: title: Foreword by Chip Kidd
pagenum: xi; title: Introduction: Love Letters
pagenum: 1; label: 1
title: We don't serve your type
pagenum: 9; label: 2
title: Capital Offence
pagenum: 22; title: Gill Sans
pagenum: 41; label: 3
title: Legibility vs Readability
pagenum: 45; title: Albertus
pagenum: 62; label: 4
title: Can a font make me popular?
pagenum: 65; title: Futura v Verdana
pagenum: 73; label: 5
title: The Hands of Unlettered Men
pagenum: 77; title: Doves
pagenum: 84; label: 6
title: The Ampersand's Final Twist
pagenum: 89; label: 7
title: Baskerville is Dead (Long Live Baskerville)
pagenum: 97; title: Mrs eaves & Mr Eaves
pagenum: 106; label: 8
title: Tunnel Visions
pagenum: 109; label: 9
title: What is it about the Swiss?
pagenum: 124; title: Frutiger
pagenum: 139; label: 10
title: Road Akzidenz
pagenum: 143; label: 11
title: DIY
pagenum: 158; label: 12
title: What the Font?
pagenum: 172; label: 13
title: Can a font be German, or Jewish?
pagenum: 180; title: Futura
pagenum: 193; label: 14
title: American Scottish
pagenum: 196; title: Moderns, Egyptians and Fat Faces
pagenum: 204; label: 15
title: Gotham is Go
pagenum: 208; label: 16
title: Pirates and Clones
pagenum: 220; title: Optima
pagenum: 233; label: 17
title: The Clamour from the Past
pagenum: 235; title: Sabon
pagenum: 251; label: 18
title: Breaking the Rules
pagenum: 254; title: The Interrobang
pagenum: 268; label: 19
title: The Serif of Liverpool
pagenum: 270; title: Vendome
pagenum: 284; label: 20
title: Fox, Gloves
pagenum: 286; label: 21
title: The Worst Fonts in the World
pagenum: 296; label: 22
title: Just My Type
pagenum: 313; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 333; title: Online
pagenum: 337; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 339; title: Font and image credits
pagenum: 343; title: Index
pagenum: 345