Sunday, 23 October 2011

A book Just My Type by Simon Garfield

I am just reading the book and there is perfectly explained some history about fonts. It starts with notion about fonts by Steve Jobs who introduced as first the typeface in computer world. Here are fonts which are around us and interesting for me:

here I founded a great link, comparison between Jonhson's typeface for London Undergroung: http://www.typotheque.com/articles/re-evaluation_of_gill_sans

Gill sans, on the right Cooper Black

Another link about typography in films: http://www.ms-studio.com/typecasting.html

Matthew Carter (verdana) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Carter, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Km6QdEIDy4

Albertus, Ikea changed typeface from Futura to Verdana (people reactions were negative)

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