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.
这是一部讲述与电脑字体设计相关趣闻的科普类书籍,坦白说,与我的知识结构关系不大,所以我只是跳着读完,没有像大狗熊(我最近比较喜爱的一个科技类博客‘狗熊有话说’的博主)那么的仔细品读。不过,偶尔涉及一下新东西,感觉还是很别致的。 以前,我并不会十分注意字体,这...
评分什么是最好喝的饮料呢?1、确实好喝 2、不会腻。那我觉得最好喝的饮料绝对是无色无味的白开水,你永远不会有吃腻的时候,你也不讨厌它。而相比其他各种味道的饮料,一开始的沉迷不会带给你永远的喜爱——万事万物,只有那些低调,平淡的事物是最最长久的。 字体也不例外,本书...
评分Markdown渲染版本:http://www.jianshu.com/p/3430e2d8b8ea # 《字体故事》读书笔记 标签(空格分隔): 读书笔记 --- ##摘录 >1. A duck walks into a bar and says, 'I'll have a beer please!'. And the barman says,'Shall I put it on your bills?' 2. 最合适的字体...
评分一开始得知这本书要出中文版还是挺高兴的,买回来两天一口气读完,发现不少低级错误:例如288页左上 302页插图旁 其他的小错误比如字体 行间距也有问题。比较讽刺,一本介绍字体和排版印刷有关的书犯排版印刷的错误。另外,本书的两位译者都不是专业翻译人士,这方面经验还是...
评分一开始得知这本书要出中文版还是挺高兴的,买回来两天一口气读完,发现不少低级错误:例如288页左上 302页插图旁 其他的小错误比如字体 行间距也有问题。比较讽刺,一本介绍字体和排版印刷有关的书犯排版印刷的错误。另外,本书的两位译者都不是专业翻译人士,这方面经验还是...
读完就觉得我不懂字体。“外行因为不懂,所以只区分得出brush script与arial那种巨大区别。其实字体的设计精髓在于nuances,就像葡萄酒。”
评分读完就觉得我不懂字体。“外行因为不懂,所以只区分得出brush script与arial那种巨大区别。其实字体的设计精髓在于nuances,就像葡萄酒。”
评分第一本读的很开心的历史书。All glory to the Baskerville Q.
评分读完就觉得我不懂字体。“外行因为不懂,所以只区分得出brush script与arial那种巨大区别。其实字体的设计精髓在于nuances,就像葡萄酒。”
评分读完就觉得我不懂字体。“外行因为不懂,所以只区分得出brush script与arial那种巨大区别。其实字体的设计精髓在于nuances,就像葡萄酒。”
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