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Bezig met laden... Type: The Secret History of Letters (2004)door Simon Loxley
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Another of those quasi-random non-fiction titles I only picked up because I happened to run across it on Scribd. An entertaining and fairly rapid romp through the history of type design from Gutenberg to Aldus Pagemaker, written by a designer but tending to tell us less about the aesthetics and more about the personalities of the people who created Baskerville, Caslon, Bodoni and all the rest of the famous typefaces. Fun, but not something you would read if you had a serious professional interest in the subject. Some of his historical interludes are a bit unconvincing, and there were a couple of places, irrelevant to the real subject of the book, where he was obviously filling in from memory and hadn't checked his facts (e.g. he repeats the false attribution of the famous ghoti=fish canard to George Bernard Shaw). geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Type is the bridge between writer and reader, between thought and understanding. Type is the message bearer: an art-form that impinges upon every literate being and yet for most of its history it has conformed to the old adage that 'good typography should be invisible', it should not distract with its own personality. It was only at the end of the nineteenth century that designers slowly realised that they could say as much with their lettering as writers could with their words. Form, of course, carries as much meaning as content. Now, anyone within reach of a computer and its limitless database of fonts has the same power. "Type: The Secret History of Letters" tells its story for the first time, treating typography as a hidden measure of our history. From the tempestuous debate about its beginnings in the fifteenth century, to the invention of our most contemporary lettering, Simon Loxley, with the skill of a novelist, tells of the people and events behind our letters. How did Johann Gutenberg, in late 1438, come to think of printing? Does Baskerville have anything to do with Sherlock Holmes? Why did the Nazis re-invent Blackletter? What is a Zapf? "Type" is a guide through the history of our letters and a study of their power. From fashion through propaganda and the development of mass literacy, Loxley shows how typography has changed our world. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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About the ghoti=fish mentioned by another reviewer: According to Wikipedia: "The first confirmed use of ghoti is in a letter dated 11 December 1855 from Charles Ollier to Leigh Hunt. On the third page of the letter, Ollier explains, "My son William has hit upon a new method of spelling Fish." Ollier then demonstrates the rationale, "So that ghoti is fish." The letter credits ghoti to William Ollier Jr., born 1824." ( )