Just My Type

Just My Type
Author: Simon Garfield
Publisher: Profile Books
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2010-10-21
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1847652921

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.

The Big Book of 5,000 Fonts

The Big Book of 5,000 Fonts
Author: David E. Carter
Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2001
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780823004898

That’s where this valuable book comes in. It features over 5,000 different fonts - not only the standard ones like Bodoni, Cheltenham, and Century, but also the entire collections of the smaller font foundries that produce innovative, cutting-edge type de

Draw Your Own Fonts

Draw Your Own Fonts
Author: Tony Seddon
Publisher: Ivy Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-09-15
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9781782404972

Learn how to turn a doodle into a terrific, fully functional font with this easy-to-follow guide to hand lettering and how to do it. With 30 complete alphabets drawn in a variety of styles by a team of designers and illustrators, you too can learn how to create energetic, funky fonts that seem to jump off the screen, the poster, or the page. With tips and demonstrations on how you can copy or adapt the alphabets to make them your own and sections on how to use your fonts online as well as on paper, this is a do-it-yourself book that will appeal to anyone who has ever begun a hand-lettered project – then wondered why it didn’t have the punch of professional work. Let your inner creativity flow and put your personality into a bespoke font designed by you!

Fontosaur

Fontosaur
Author: Sarah Hyndman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2020-04-13
Genre:
ISBN:

This brilliant colouring book is crammed full of dinosaurs reimagined as different fonts. Children will have fun learning to recognise letters in different shapes and sizes. They will learn how to spell out the names of their favourite dinosaurs while they colour them in. The book contains 50 fontosaurs to colour in along with activity sheets of fontosaurs to cut out, colour and stick onto a prehistoric landscape. The idea to mix dinosaurs with fonts was inspired by Sarah's 12-year-old nephew Eddie, who loves fonts and makes animals out of the letters that spell out their names. The challenge for Sarah was to choose fonts to suit different dinosaurs and then to construct each one out of the letters of its name. Top dinosaur fan 3-year-old Blake has given the book his enthusiastic thumbs-up and says "oh I love this book".

Why Fonts Matter

Why Fonts Matter
Author: Sarah Hyndman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9781584236313

We all constantly interact with type in almost every aspect of our lives. But how do fonts affect what we read and influence the choices we make? This book opens up the science and the art behind how fonts influence you. It explains why certain fonts or styles evoke particular experiences and associations.

Better Web Typography for a Better Web (Second Edition)

Better Web Typography for a Better Web (Second Edition)
Author: Matej Latin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2019-08-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9780464213680

Better Web Typography for a Better Web is a book based on a top-rated online course explaining typography to people who build web sites-web designers and web developers. The author, Matej Latin, takes complex concepts such as vertical rhythm, modular scale and page composition, and explains them in an easy-to-understand way. The content of the book is accompanied by live code examples and the readers go through a process of designing and building an example website as they go through the book. This is a new typography book for a new medium, the rules haven't changed much, everything else has.

Typographic Firsts

Typographic Firsts
Author: John Boardley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9781851244737

From the practical challenges of polychromatic printing or printing music staves and notes to the techniques for illustrating books with woodcuts, producing books for children and the design of the first fonts, these stories chart the invention of the printed book, the world's first means of mass communication.

The Big Book of Font Combinations

The Big Book of Font Combinations
Author: Douglas Bonneville
Publisher:
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2019-02
Genre: Graphic design (Typography)
ISBN: 9780960043910

The BBOFC is an expansive collection of carefully crafted typeface pair samples. The font pairings in BBOFC will inspire you and give you back time you need for your design projects. Use the combination examples straight out of the BBOFC in your next project, with other typeface software, or use them as a springboard for your own creativity. However you use the BBOFC, it's bound to inspire and is a trustworthy companion to consult for all kinds of design projects and general study of typography.