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
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Simon Garfield (Londres, 1960) es autor de doce exitosos libros de no ficción como Mauve, The Error World y The Nations Favourite. Sus diarios editados del Mass Observation Archive ?Our Hidden Lives, We Are War y Private Battles? proporcionan información única sobre la II Guerra Mundial y sus secuelas. Su estudio del sida en Gran Bretaña, The End of Innocence, ganó el premio Somerset Maugham. Vive en Londres y en St. Ives, Cornwall. www.simongarfield.com