Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Jut My Type: a Book about Fonts / Simon Garfield 356 p.





I'd been scratching my head at the popularity of this book (still 16 people on the request list) until I brought it home and read it. Either Garfield is a terrific writer, or font preferences tap into a deep vein of psychological meaning, or both, but this was a lot of fun to read. My favorite section detailed movie gaffes in which a printed page appears in history written with a font that hadn't yet been invented at the time in which the scene was set.

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