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内容简介:突然之间,人们就对字体着了迷。从无处不在的 Helvetica,到爱恨交织的 Comic Sans;从与世长存的 Baskerville,到昙花一现的 2010 Headline;从披头士字母 T,到莉莉·艾伦的字母 L;从 IBM 的打字「高尔夫球」,到孩子们 的「约翰牛印字套装」;从古登堡的第一款字体 Texura,到乔布斯的第一台 Macintosh。这些故事传奇,《字体故事》都将为您一一呈现。

这几乎是第一次,我们将西文字体的故事完整地引入到中文世界。在书中,我们努力将这些西文字体的美丽之处呈现给您。同时,我们对中文字体排印的努力也未曾松懈,书中的排印也有些许与众不同之处。

本书所使用字体均由「方正字库」正式授权。TIB(Type is Beautiful)对本书的制作也给予了帮助与支持。

作者简介:西蒙·加菲尔德(Simon Garfield),英国记者与非小说作家。他是多家报刊的职业供稿人,包括包括《独立报》《周日独立报》《观察家报》等。本书《字体故事》(Just My Type)是他最为重要的作品之一。

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302 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2013

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January 12, 2025
I bought this book in 万圣书店 back when I was an undergrad at Tsinghua University. But I only read the first few chapters back then. This is the first time I finished reading it. To be honest, I did not enjoy reading it. The Chinese translation feels too 翻译腔. The topic of fonts is interesting to me, but I am not an avid fan of fonts. So this book sometimes feel too detailed and nuanced to me. Overall, I give it 3 starts, because it adds a bit to my knowledge base albeit not being a completely readable book. I learnt that Helvetica is a popular font invented by Swiss. I also learnt that Times New Roman was created for the famous newspaper Times. It's also pretty cool to know the modern popular fonts Consolas and Calibri are created by the same person.
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