Just My Type is not just a font book but a book of stories. About how Helvetica and Comic Sans
took over the world. About why Barack Obama opted for Gotham while Amy Winehouse found her
soul in 30s Art Deco. About the great originators of type from Baskerville to Zapf or people
like Neville Brody who threw out the rulebook or Margaret Calvert who invented the motorway
signs that are used from Watford Gap to Abu Dhabi. About the pivotal moment when fonts left the
world of Letraset and were loaded onto computers ... and typefaces became something we realised
we all have an opinion about.As the Sunday Times review put it the book is 'a kind of Eats
Shoots and Leaves for letters revealing the extent to which fonts are not only shaped by but
also define the world in which we live.'This edition is available with both black and silver
covers.
