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Comic Sans
The Biography of a Typeface (The ABC of Fonts)
Series: The ABC of Fonts
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Comic Sans
More than a decade on from the publication of the Sunday Times bestselling JUST MY TYPE, Simon Garfield presents a new series of beautifully designed pocket biographies of iconic typefaces
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Comic Sans is one of the most used and most reviled typefaces of the digital age. How was it made? How could it spawn a movement to ban it and yet still be so widely promoted by educators? What does its accidental creator make of its contentious and singular history?
This quirky and unique book considers how the computer transformed type into something that anyone could use and have an opinion on. It examines how a typeface, correctly used, may sell us almost anything, and how new types with names such as Crash Soul, Lovely Scream Queens, and Ampersandist (to name but three recent examples of the hundreds issued each year) each attempt to keep the alphabet exciting and new.
And it concludes with an alluring question: could Comic Sans now be the coolest typeface ever made?
Series: The ABC of Fonts
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ISBN: 9781399609302
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 09 November 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 18.0mm
Width: 134.0mm
Height: 202.0mm
Weight: 212g
Pages: 128
About the Author
Simon Garfield is the author of the international bestsellers Just My Type, On the Map and Mauve, while To the Letter was one of the inspirations for the theatre shows Letters Live with Benedict Cumberbatch. His study of AIDS in Britain, The End of Innocence, won the Somerset Maugham prize.
Also by Simon Garfield
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