Comic Sans: The Biography of a Typeface by Simon Garfield

Comic Sans: The Biography of a Typeface

The ABC of Fonts #3

Simon Garfield

128 pages first pub 2024 (view editions)

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This book is ideal for readers curious about the cultural impact of everyday design elements, blending humor and history in a quick, engaging exploration of how a simple font became a global phenomenon.

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A compact and charming handsome history of the font we love to hate by the New York Times best-selling author of Just My Type.Since its accidental creation at Microsoft in the mid-1990s, Comic Sans has become one of the most used and talked-about ...

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