megatsunami 's review for:

Just My Type: A Book About Fonts by Simon Garfield

3.0

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This book was a very enjoyable read with a lot of interesting stories. But at the end, I still didn't feel I really understood what gives fonts their particular qualities. The book tried to weave introductory material throughout the text (rather than having a "this is how to analyze a font" section at the beginning). I can understand that from a stylistic standpoint, but I just really wanted a basic, coherent introduction to what makes fonts different from each other. Descriptions such as "the font is consistently crisp and reassuringly humanizing" (p. 233) left me confused. I'm clearly not meant to be a font connoisseur.