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3.63 AVERAGE
3.63 AVERAGE
informative
fast-paced
Was more of a casual coffee-table book than I was expecting but still served as a decent intro to the topic with lots of visual aids. I also felt that it curiously never fully explained the reference/joke of the title — they mention letterspacing as a noun but not a verb..
Interesting book that explains the fundaments of typography, but at times it could be heavy if you don't know anything about the topic. Afterwards, though, you will.
I thought this book was going to give me a seizure. There were so many different fonts, images, margins... Did I mention fonts? They were everywhere. I get the point (or pica) - font matters. But did you have to put it everywhere? I can only look at "Handgloves" so many times in so many ways and mixed up in the overall book was just confusing.
Font. Sigh.
And what was up with the information in small, red font in the left margins? I couldn't make up my mind about what to read. Should I read the main text? Should I read the margin? Or should I just look at the images. What a headache!
I ended up looking at the pictures.
p.s. I blame Joe Comeau for this.
Font. Sigh.
And what was up with the information in small, red font in the left margins? I couldn't make up my mind about what to read. Should I read the main text? Should I read the margin? Or should I just look at the images. What a headache!
I ended up looking at the pictures.
p.s. I blame Joe Comeau for this.
informative
fast-paced
so.much.padding.
I felt like I was going to lose my mind.
I felt like I was going to lose my mind.
Was un informative and lacked the robustness of an application such as story graph
fast-paced
Interesting book about which fonts are useful for different purposes. Would be a helpful reference.
This book was such a letdown after reading and loving 'Just My Type' by Simon Garfield. This book, which I read the second edition of, was just such a letdown. The high goodreads rating doesn't reflect that it has almost no actual history, facts or information about fonts or type. It spents the whole book comparing fonts to people, houses, forests, etc. without actually giving me any real interesting or useful information. The title is a joke that they say I should understand by the end of reading this book, but nope.
As well, you would think a book that a book that discusses book layouts and ease of reading would have an extremely readable layout, right? WRONG. The left side of each two page layout was a picture, sometimes related to the discussion. The bottom of the page was random fonts with no discussion as to how they're relevant to the topic. And there are two columns of text: a large one for main discussion and a smaller red-font one for 'deeper discussion'. I wanted the deeper discussion but stopping to read it interrupted the flow of the main discussion from page to page. I didn't feel like there was a good time to interrupt the reading so I could look at the deeper topics. I feel like those should have been integrated into the main discussion so that the main discussion was deeper and more interesting & educational.
As well, you would think a book that a book that discusses book layouts and ease of reading would have an extremely readable layout, right? WRONG. The left side of each two page layout was a picture, sometimes related to the discussion. The bottom of the page was random fonts with no discussion as to how they're relevant to the topic. And there are two columns of text: a large one for main discussion and a smaller red-font one for 'deeper discussion'. I wanted the deeper discussion but stopping to read it interrupted the flow of the main discussion from page to page. I didn't feel like there was a good time to interrupt the reading so I could look at the deeper topics. I feel like those should have been integrated into the main discussion so that the main discussion was deeper and more interesting & educational.