Simon Garfield is the author of twelve acclaimed books of nonfiction. He lives in London and St. Ives, Cornwall, and currently has a soft spot for Requiem Fine Roman and HT Gelateria.
Chip Kidd is associate art director for Alfred A. Knopf, where his jacket designs have revolutionized the art of American book packaging. He is the author of numerous books, including The Cheese Monkeys.
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.
一开始得知这本书要出中文版还是挺高兴的,买回来两天一口气读完,发现不少低级错误:例如288页左上 302页插图旁 其他的小错误比如字体 行间距也有问题。比较讽刺,一本介绍字体和排版印刷有关的书犯排版印刷的错误。另外,本书的两位译者都不是专业翻译人士,这方面经验还是...
评分Markdown渲染版本:http://www.jianshu.com/p/3430e2d8b8ea # 《字体故事》读书笔记 标签(空格分隔): 读书笔记 --- ##摘录 >1. A duck walks into a bar and says, 'I'll have a beer please!'. And the barman says,'Shall I put it on your bills?' 2. 最合适的字体...
评分当苹果iOS系统升级到9的时候,很多人发朋友圈说:“苹果的新的无衬线字体真是漂亮啊。” 来看真正的无衬线字体的定义: “去除字母头尾处的阴影部分(衬线)就成为无衬线字体” 这也意味着,汉字的字体里,并没有所谓的“无衬线字体”。衬线和无衬线只能专指英文字体。 立即...
评分当苹果iOS系统升级到9的时候,很多人发朋友圈说:“苹果的新的无衬线字体真是漂亮啊。” 来看真正的无衬线字体的定义: “去除字母头尾处的阴影部分(衬线)就成为无衬线字体” 这也意味着,汉字的字体里,并没有所谓的“无衬线字体”。衬线和无衬线只能专指英文字体。 立即...
评分在《机械复制时代的艺术作品》中,本雅明提到,早在文字能够印刷之前,木刻技术已经实现了对版画等艺术作品的复制,而后石印术和摄影术又分别二度改变了文献和形象复制领域的面貌。里头最著名的一个论述是,当现代工业技术可以轻而易举地进行制模、影印、刷版等流程操作之后,...
这本英文书读起来还是有点吃力。好多单词不懂。
评分「字谈字畅」播客推荐过的书。了解西文字体的入门读物。一个小亮点,是书中提到某字体名字时,都是用对应的字体打出来的。试想下,一个完全被Helvetica支配的世界,该有多无聊啊……
评分其实是很有趣的一本书
评分妈妈啊。。。累死我了= =....
评分「字谈字畅」播客推荐过的书。了解西文字体的入门读物。一个小亮点,是书中提到某字体名字时,都是用对应的字体打出来的。试想下,一个完全被Helvetica支配的世界,该有多无聊啊……
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