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Just My Type
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts | Simon Garfield
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Just My Type is not just a font book, but a book of stories. About how Helvetica and Comic Sans took over the world. About why Barack Obama opted for Gotham, while Amy Winehouse found her soul in 30s Art Deco. About the great originators of type, from Baskerville to Zapf, or people like Neville Brody who threw out the rulebook, or Margaret Calvert, who invented the motorway signs that are used from Watford Gap to Abu Dhabi. About the pivotal moment when fonts left the world of Letraset and were loaded onto computers ... and typefaces became something we realised we all have an opinion about. As the Sunday Times review put it, the book is 'a kind of Eats, Shoots and Leaves for letters, revealing the extent to which fonts are not only shaped by but also define the world in which we live.' This edition is available with both black and silver covers.
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aquariusnat
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This is a nonfic about the history of fonts . It's actually quite interesting. There's several photo examples in the book and some surprising stories too.

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Cathythoughts
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#SeptemberDanes I raided my sons shelves again yesterday... this is the opposite of #nothingincommon 😉🙃

Kalalalatja Well played 👏👏 6y
TrishB Clever 👍🏻 6y
Cinfhen Well done 👍🏻 6y
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BrenaJo
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We need this symbol!!

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BrenaJo
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Who knew people could get so worked up about fonts? 😂 dropping F bombs lol

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BrenaJo
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Love this paragraph about ampersands!!

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Clwojick
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How you ever been somewhere, and seen a book and immediately thought of someone who would love it.... but then you realize that someone is actually a character from another book you've read, and not an actual person. That was me today.... Anyone who has read My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry would agree that Elsa's dad would love this book. 😂

swatreads Haha😁 awesome👌👌 7y
CoffeeCatsBooks Lol! 🤣 7y
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KtheBookwyrm
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I found a booth with a bunch of these, but since I'm not rich I couldn't afford to buy them all. I settled on these to start off my collection. Love them!

Books88 Love those!!! 7y
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MrBook
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😂😂😂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Well played, Marketer Person. Well played. #LitsyHumor

emilyesears My kind of place! 7y
LitsyGoesPostal 😊👍🏻 7y
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kirylin
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I wish I could remember who recommended this book to me, but it was rather interesting and a fairly quick read. (There are a lot of pictures.) It's essentially a cultural history of font design, with bits of typeface design logic thrown in. Great for design nerds. #readinglog

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Kelly
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This weekend my husband made me a new bookshelf and I bought a sweet vintage typewriter 😍

LeahBergen Lovely! 😍 7y
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Rlweasley
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Loved this book! I adored On The Map, so I knew I was going to like Just My Type before I began, but I didn't realize how quickly I would get through it or how much I would learn. Garfield does a great job of balancing information on printing, computers, the people behind the fonts, and the fonts themselves. I would 100% recommend this (I'm already making my roommate who is a designer read it, if that's any indication) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Rlweasley
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This used to be my tube stop! Loving this book so far and am excited to continue.

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TinyReader
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The chapter on Eric Gill is reason enough to recommend this book. I read it almost entirely in the car during lunch breaks

#eisenhower

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TheWordJar
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Oh, those wordy language books! They make #textonlycovers for #booktober easy! I read Just My Type a few years ago and loved it. A fun way to geek out about the fonts you know/love/hate.

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CuriousTeeth
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Type Books is my local and my workplace! Slinging kids books here for the last 4 years and it's been glorious. #bookstorelove #septphotochallange

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MrBook
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Who wants to read a book about fonts?! Exactly, not many, lol, but prodigious readers such as us on Litsy deal with fonts all the time, & we may find a great deal of pleasure in this fount of font knowledge. SG goes through the histories & usages of many fonts in a fun & engaging manner. This isn't some dry typographical-nerd tome. I've re-read it twice so far. You'll garner an impressive font foundation. #PairWith: a Long Island iced tea, cold.

abbiereadsbooks Have you seen the documentary Helvetica? Super interesting look at how fonts are created and how they influence us. 8y
LauraBeth I have to go buy this today! 8y
ValerieAndBooks Sometimes I judge a book by its font! Especially as I get older 🤓 8y
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Dogearedcopy @mkindness Have you seen this? 8y
MrBook @abbiereadsbooks Yes! It was great 😁👍🏻! @LauraBeth Yesss 😁👏🏻👍🏻🙌🏻😊😊! @ValerieAndBooks 😂👏🏻👍🏻👌🏻! 8y
LauraBeth Me too @ValerieAndBooks 😀 I can't stand reading san-serif fonts and I also have an aversion to bright white pages. 😬 8y
ErickaS_Flyleafunfurled Who wants to read a book about fonts?! This girl! 🤗 8y
Megabooks @LauraBeth I can't stand serif fonts! But I do read my Kindle on the off white setting. 8y
MrBook @Dogearedcopy Good call on that rec 😊👍🏻. @LauraBeth 😁👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🙌🏻! @ErickaS_Flyleafunfurled.com Ohh yeeaahh 😎🙌🏻👌🏻! 8y
MrBook @Ebooksandcooks I'm with you 😎👌🏻🙌🏻!!! 8y
MrBook @WanderingBookaneer @BookishMarginalia 😁👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻🙌🏻!!! 8y
PenguinInFlight I. NEED. THIS. 🙌🏻 8y
BookishMarginalia Oh my goodness, yes! @WanderingBookaneer and I need this in our lives! (So does @MrBook , I bet!) 8y
MrBook @PenguinInFlight 😂👏🏻👍🏻🙌🏻! Then. Get. It! 😁 Because I want to know what you think of it 😎👌🏻. @BookishMarginalia Oh yeeaahh 😎🙌🏻! 8y
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