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Snails and Monkey Tails
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Ideal for readers fascinated by language, typography, and design, particularly fans of titles like Eats, Shoots & Leaves and Just My Type. A perfect pick for creatives and language enthusiasts eager for a visual and educational journey through punctuation.
An entertaining, informative, and elegantly designed guide that makes understanding punctuation marks and symbols simple and fun.
A rollicking linguistic ride for fans of Eats, Shoots & Leaves and Just My Type.
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An entertaining, informative, and elegantly designed guide that makes understanding punctuation marks and symbols simple and fun.
A rollicking linguistic ride for fans of Eats, Shoots & Leaves and Just My Type.
What is the purpose of the comma – perhaps the most used symbol in the English language – and what are the proper uses of the asterisk? Do quote marks go inside or outside punctuation? What about a quote within a quote – a quote from someone quoting someone else? How much space goes on either side of an ellipsis? What’s the difference between an en dash and an em dash?
Snails and Monkey Tails is a show-stopping guide with more than 75 uniquely designed two-colour spreads. Award-winning graphic designer Michael Arndt explores the typographic origins, names, and shapes of both common punctuation marks and symbols, as well as the proper and diverse usage of each. From the full stop to the question mark, the semicolon to the en dash, symbols and marks are an integral part of language.
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“From commas to semicolons, from slashes to asterisks, from guillemets to octothorpes (named, perhaps, after athlete Jim Thorpe), you’ll never look at punctuation the same way again.” Michael Bierut, partner, Pentagram
Book Details
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ISBN: 9780008530204
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 08 December 2022
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: HQ
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 18.0mm
Width: 171.0mm
Height: 171.0mm
Weight: 450g
Pages: 160
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About the Author
Michael Arndt is an award-winning graphic designer, author and illustrator of the critically acclaimed Cat Says Meow and other, My Heart Grows,One Yellow Sun, Minimal New York City and Thoughts Are Air. He lives in New York City.
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