Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Need a font?

Thanks to Steve Jobs, we managed to get a choice of fonts on our computers, but have you ever considered the history and philosophy of the font you are using?  According to Janet Maslin, Simon Garfield's book Just My Type (2010) is an "excellent gloss" on the history of font culture.  Oh, and there's also some material on Wynkyn de Worde.

Janet Maslin, "Font Pain and Poetry: So Much Depends on a Curve," New York Times (August 21, 2011).
Wynkyn de Worde Society (www.wynkyndeworde.co.uk).

(By the way, this book is available through iBooks, and the first pages can be read there.)
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