Simon Garfield is the author of twelve acclaimed books of nonfiction. He lives in London and St. Ives, Cornwall, and currently has a so ft 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 delightfully inquisitive tour that explores the rich history and the subtle powers of fonts.
Fonts surround us every day, on street signs and buildings, on movie posters and books, and on just about every product that we buy. But where do fonts come from and why do we need so many? Who is behind the businesslike subtlety of Times New Roman, the cool detachment of Arial, or the maddening lightness of Comic Sans (and the movement to ban it)? Simon Garfield embarks on a mission to answer these questions and more, and reveal what may be the very best and worst fonts in the world.
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, Garfield unravels our age old obsession with the way our words look. Just My Type investigates a range of modern mysteries, including how Helvetica took over the world, what inspires the seemingly ubiquitous use of Trajan on bad movie posters, and what makes a font look presidential, male or female, American, British, German, or Jewish. From the typeface of Beatlemania to the graphic vision of the Obama campaign, fonts can signal a musical revolution or the rise of an American president. This book is a must-read for the design conscious that will forever change the way you look at the printed word.
發表於2024-06-27
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是通過《字談字暢》認識的這本書和譯者的,雖然之前也聽聞過字節社和TIB(Type is Beautiful),但是對於字體的認識停留在襯綫和非襯綫和各個字體名字還有聲名在外的Helvetica等幾個西文字體。我想這可能也和中文的語境有關,但是無知並不能怪環境。 就像我們小時候最開始學一...
評分by盧濤 2011年9月,《紐約時報》暢銷書榜單前十位裏齣現一本叫Just My Type的書,而它的副標“A Book About Fonts”告訴你,這居然是一本關於字體的書!隻要隨便翻看一本正常點的關於字體的書,它們都會不厭其煩地從六百年前的約翰內斯·古登堡嚮你扯起。而這本《字體故事:西...
評分在火車上,我看完瞭這本《字體故事—— 西文字體的美麗傳奇》 書中介紹的很多字體,我聞所未聞,或者有些字體我見過卻視如不見,畢竟,我接觸西文字體的機會不多,偶爾用的字體無非隻有Times New Roman和Arial(標示數字)而已,但通過閱讀這本近400頁的書籍,對於西方字體的發...
評分每個人自有一個故事,承載著我們思想的文字的不例外。 《字體故事》給我印象最深刻的是裏麵的文字混用,是我看過的書裏麵最豐富的(畢竟是一本關於字體的書籍),在正文中使用與介紹的字體相同的字體,形象地描繪瞭該字體的式樣,書的內容因此生動起來。讓我感受到與之前看過...
評分在火車上,我看完瞭這本《字體故事—— 西文字體的美麗傳奇》 書中介紹的很多字體,我聞所未聞,或者有些字體我見過卻視如不見,畢竟,我接觸西文字體的機會不多,偶爾用的字體無非隻有Times New Roman和Arial(標示數字)而已,但通過閱讀這本近400頁的書籍,對於西方字體的發...
圖書標籤: 設計 字體 字體的故事 美國 平麵設計 font design Typography
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評分第一本讀的很開心的曆史書。All glory to the Baskerville Q.
評分讀完就覺得我不懂字體。“外行因為不懂,所以隻區分得齣brush script與arial那種巨大區彆。其實字體的設計精髓在於nuances,就像葡萄酒。”
評分讀完就覺得我不懂字體。“外行因為不懂,所以隻區分得齣brush script與arial那種巨大區彆。其實字體的設計精髓在於nuances,就像葡萄酒。”
評分讀完就覺得我不懂字體。“外行因為不懂,所以隻區分得齣brush script與arial那種巨大區彆。其實字體的設計精髓在於nuances,就像葡萄酒。”
Just My Type 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載