Comments on: Just My Type by Simon Garfield http://www.procopywriters.co.uk/2012/06/just-my-type-simon-garfield/ Just another WordPress site Fri, 10 May 2013 12:56:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Francis Glibbery http://www.procopywriters.co.uk/2012/06/just-my-type-simon-garfield/#comment-60 Francis Glibbery Tue, 03 Jul 2012 14:52:40 +0000 http://www.procopywriters.co.uk/?p=2301#comment-60 I found a copy of this book in a friend's loo. I straightaway discovered that it's more valuable than any collection of Jak cartoons! In fact, I bought a copy for myself and - far from leaving it in my loo - it's been read and sits on my shelf alongside other indispensable works such as The Economist Pocket Style Book and Don't Make Me Think, Steve Krug's excellent book on web usability. I found a copy of this book in a friend’s loo. I straightaway discovered that it’s more valuable than any collection of Jak cartoons! In fact, I bought a copy for myself and – far from leaving it in my loo – it’s been read and sits on my shelf alongside other indispensable works such as The Economist Pocket Style Book and Don’t Make Me Think, Steve Krug’s excellent book on web usability.

]]> By: Ben Locker http://www.procopywriters.co.uk/2012/06/just-my-type-simon-garfield/#comment-55 Ben Locker Sun, 01 Jul 2012 08:18:34 +0000 http://www.procopywriters.co.uk/?p=2301#comment-55 Love this book. It was serialised on the radio last year; and I must have raved about it a lot because my wife bought me a copy for Christmas. The politics of typefaces was fascinating — especially the story of how the Nazis expediently went from Blackletter to Roman fonts as they invaded more countries that used Roman type. Love this book. It was serialised on the radio last year; and I must have raved about it a lot because my wife bought me a copy for Christmas.

The politics of typefaces was fascinating — especially the story of how the Nazis expediently went from Blackletter to Roman fonts as they invaded more countries that used Roman type.

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