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.
在火车上,我看完了这本《字体故事—— 西文字体的美丽传奇》 书中介绍的很多字体,我闻所未闻,或者有些字体我见过却视如不见,毕竟,我接触西文字体的机会不多,偶尔用的字体无非只有Times New Roman和Arial(标示数字)而已,但通过阅读这本近400页的书籍,对于西方字体的发...
評分2011年紅遍歐美的暢銷書裏,居然有一本關於字體的故事書:《Just My Type》。本書一經出版就廣受歡迎,登上了衆多書籍銷售排行榜。在銷售熱潮和媒體推薦下,社會上生起一輪字體熱。這本書將衆多有關於西文字體的故事、插曲和八卦收集一處,通過趣味筆法講述出來。從飽受譏諷的 ...
評分不错的知识书,只是最好对着字体看,作者如果能把每种提到的字体都有一段就更好了 不错的知识书,只是最好对着字体看,作者如果能把每种提到的字体都有一段就更好了 不错的知识书,只是最好对着字体看,作者如果能把每种提到的字体都有一段就更好了 不错的知识书,只...
評分2011年紅遍歐美的暢銷書裏,居然有一本關於字體的故事書:《Just My Type》。本書一經出版就廣受歡迎,登上了衆多書籍銷售排行榜。在銷售熱潮和媒體推薦下,社會上生起一輪字體熱。這本書將衆多有關於西文字體的故事、插曲和八卦收集一處,通過趣味筆法講述出來。從飽受譏諷的 ...
評分在《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,...
「字談字暢」播客推薦過的書。瞭解西文字體的入門讀物。一個小亮點,是書中提到某字體名字時,都是用對應的字體打齣來的。試想下,一個完全被Helvetica支配的世界,該有多無聊啊……
评分因為是字體,隻好啃原版
评分蠻有趣的。看瞭這本書後,恭喜你,你成功患上字體強迫癥瞭。
评分「字談字暢」播客推薦過的書。瞭解西文字體的入門讀物。一個小亮點,是書中提到某字體名字時,都是用對應的字體打齣來的。試想下,一個完全被Helvetica支配的世界,該有多無聊啊……
评分其實是很有趣的一本書
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