Type & Typography, by Phil Baines and Andrew Haslam (2002). The ideal primer if you don’t yet know your Bembo from your Frutiger. Deliquesce over serifs and sans, x-heights and bowls, and every kind of type from Grotesks to Fat Faces. I myself was a fat face in high school. Never had a date, so was forced to console myself with geeky Claude Garamond and his surprisingly large dingbat. … More »
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