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, "Just My Type" will have the answer. Learn why using upper case got a New Zealand health worker sacked. Refer to Prince in the Tafkap years as a Dingbat (that works on many lev...(展开全部)

关于作者 西蒙·加菲尔德（Simon Garfield），英国记者与非小说作家。他是多家报刊的职业供稿人，包括包括《独立报》《周日独立报》《观察家报》等。本书《字体故事》（Just My Type）是他最为重要的作品之一。 关于东西文库： 东西文库致力于「第三种文化」（ TTC）的思考、传播与交流；注重在互联网、科技、 商业、媒体、电子阅读等领域的互动；包括但不限于：纸质、电子出版，版权引进、策划，文化论坛。 已出版《失控》《技术元素》《比特素养》《掘金黑客》《数字乌托邦》《字体故 事》等图书。

A delightfully inquisitive tour that explores the rich history and the subtle powers of fonts. Fonts surround us every day, on street signs and buildings, on movie posters and books, and on just about every product that we buy. But where do fonts come from and why do we need so many? Who is behind the businesslike subtlety of Times New Roman, the cool detachment of Arial, or th...(展开全部)

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...(展开全部)

While writing and alphabets go back thousands of years, the history of typography is a long, rich, and unique one-spanning from the movable type used to set Guttenberg's 42-line Bible in 1455 to today's 21st-century computer-designed typefaces. Type and Typography is the definitive guide for every designer who works with type and layout. Carefully structured and brimming with ...(展开全部)

凯伦 程是美国西雅图市华盛顿大学视觉交流设计项目的副教授，主要教授该大学的字体设计和字体排印学课程。她是一名积极的字体设计实践者，其设计作品早已获得了美国平面设计师协会（AIGA）、ID杂志和美国设计中心的认可。她在ID杂志上出版了《交流艺术》一书。

As one of a graphic designer’s most essential tools, typefaces influence the appearance of visual print materials perhaps more than any other component. This essential book explains the processes behind creating and designing type. Author Karen Cheng discusses issues of structure, optical compensation, and legibility, with special emphasis given to the often overlooked relation...(展开全部)

凯伦 程是美国西雅图市华盛顿大学视觉交流设计项目的副教授，主要教授该大学的字体设计和字体排印学课程。她是一名积极的字体设计实践者，其设计作品早已获得了美国平面设计师协会（AIGA）、ID杂志和美国设计中心的认可。她在ID杂志上出版了《交流艺术》一书。