Comic Sans: The Biography of a Typeface (The ABC of Fonts) - Couverture rigide

Garfield, Simon

 
9781399609302: Comic Sans: The Biography of a Typeface (The ABC of Fonts)
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1399609300 ISBN 13 : 9781399609302
Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2023

Synopsis

Comic Sans is one of the most used and most reviled typefaces of the digital age. How was it made? How could it spawn a movement to ban it and yet still be so widely promoted by educators? What does its accidental creator make of its contentious and singular history?

This quirky and unique book considers how the computer transformed type into something that anyone could use and have an opinion on. It examines how a typeface, correctly used, may sell us almost anything, and how new types with names such as Crash Soul, Lovely Scream Queens and Ampersandist (to name but three recent examples of the hundreds issued each year) each attempt to keep the alphabet exciting and new. And it concludes with an alluring question: could Comic Sans now be the coolest typeface ever made?

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À propos de l'auteur

Simon Garfield is the author of the international bestsellers Just My Type, On the Map and Mauve, while To the Letter was one of the inspirations for the theatre shows Letters Live with Benedict Cumberbatch. His study of AIDS in Britain, The End of Innocence, won the Somerset Maugham prize.

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Éditeur
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1399609300
ISBN 13 
9781399609302
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
128
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
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