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Just My Type: A Book about Fonts 豆 8.3分
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作者:Simon Garfield
出版社:Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
出版日期:2011-01
ISBN:9781592406524
文件格式: pdf
标签: 字体 设计 平面设计 艺术 design Graphic_design 英文原版 众包翻译
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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...
目录
Foreword Chip Kidd xii
Introduction: Love Letters 1
Periodic Table of Typefaces 6-7
1 We don't serve your type 9
2 Capital Offence 22
Gill Sans 41
3 Legibility vs Readability 45
Albertus 62
4 Can a font make me popular? 65
Futura v Verdana 73
5 The Hands of Unlettered Men 77
Doves 84
6 The Ampersand's Final Twist 89
7 Baskerville is Dead (Long Live Baskerville) 97
Mrs Eaves & Mr Eaves 106
8 Tunnel Visions 109
9 What is it about the Swiss? 124
Frutiger 139
10 Road Akzidenz 143
11 DIY 158
12 What the Font? 172
13 Can a font be German, or Jewish? 180
Futura 193
14 American Scottish 196
Moderns, Egyptians and Fat Faces 204
15 Gotham is Go 208
16 Pirates and Clones 220
Optima 233
17 The Clamour from the Past 235
Sabon 251
18 Breaking the Rules 254
The Interrobang 268
19 The Serif of Liverpool 270
Vendôme 284
20 Fox, Gloves 286
21 The Worst Fonts in the World 296
22 Just My Type 313
Bibliography 333
Online 337
Acknowledgements 339
Font and image credits 343
Index 345
Introduction: Love Letters 1
Periodic Table of Typefaces 6-7
1 We don't serve your type 9
2 Capital Offence 22
Gill Sans 41
3 Legibility vs Readability 45
Albertus 62
4 Can a font make me popular? 65
Futura v Verdana 73
5 The Hands of Unlettered Men 77
Doves 84
6 The Ampersand's Final Twist 89
7 Baskerville is Dead (Long Live Baskerville) 97
Mrs Eaves & Mr Eaves 106
8 Tunnel Visions 109
9 What is it about the Swiss? 124
Frutiger 139
10 Road Akzidenz 143
11 DIY 158
12 What the Font? 172
13 Can a font be German, or Jewish? 180
Futura 193
14 American Scottish 196
Moderns, Egyptians and Fat Faces 204
15 Gotham is Go 208
16 Pirates and Clones 220
Optima 233
17 The Clamour from the Past 235
Sabon 251
18 Breaking the Rules 254
The Interrobang 268
19 The Serif of Liverpool 270
Vendôme 284
20 Fox, Gloves 286
21 The Worst Fonts in the World 296
22 Just My Type 313
Bibliography 333
Online 337
Acknowledgements 339
Font and image credits 343
Index 345