I really enjoyed reading and looking at this book. The author presents a history of typefaces with the inspiration for digital types. Each family of type has an overview history with a short history of the particular type and illustrations. Anyone with an interest in type, printing and books will enjoy this book and it deserves a place in your library.

This is a rather scholarly work which talks about the original typography and shows how it was translated into digital formats. Do not let this intimidate you, it is a fascinating read. Along the way we meet the calligraphers and other people responsible for the fonts. The book is set in chronological order based on the original designs and is accompanied by plenty of images. My favorites were the ones in the illustrated glossary of typographical terms.

A great book for graphic designers, calligraphers, artists, or typography enthusiasts.

This is a book that is so satisfying in so many levels, it gives a little background and a little history on many examples of type, but the most interest are the reproduction of the type. I really did not realise there was so many different and beautiful ways of replicated the alphabet. Some revive an era in my mind, others seem so modern that they could have been digitally produced.
As a printmaker, I love the type, I collect it wherever I can find it, but with everything it is hard to source or date. This book is an absolute joy to read.

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A lovely look at "revival" typefaces that have been directly inspired and/or revamped from original pre-digital types.I love fonts, but whenever books focus on basic, serif fonts and their specifics I completely tune out--yes, all serif fonts look different, but they still all look the same to me. This book, however, discusses a wide variety of fonts--basic serifs are included, but also sans serifs, scripts, and, my favorites, the Victorian era fonts ("Fat Faces" through "Late Victorian" [Moser and Mackintosh are my most favorite, eye-meltingly amazing fonts] were my favorites).

Each font gets a brief bit discussing where the typeface originated, and how designers over the years have digitized it and/or updated it for more modern uses. There's also a full character set, a picture of an original work using the original typeface (architecture, posters, typeface catalogs), and a few highlighted characters, showcasing differences between the digital font and the original type, or differences in sub-styles of the fonts.

I essentially took this as an art history lesson, via fonts. Many styles through time have had their own set of fonts to go with them, and the inclusion of pictures of many of these fonts in their original, natural habitat really allows the reader to get an idea of the time and place a certain typeface comes from.

This is laid out beautifully, and would make a lovely coffee table book. Reading this as an ebook, it makes it difficult to flip back and forth quickly between similar fonts, and I didn't get the two-page spread, so I would highly recommend getting this as a physical copy.

Five stars. Here is an expertly-documented treatise on a subject that will be of special interest to graphic designers and those in the publishing world. Learn about the development, usage, marketing, and modern transformation of popular, classic typefaces and their inventors. A fascinating behind-the-scenes look at a subject that is easy to take for granted in our digital age. As an artist who collects and enjoys using fonts in a variety of media projects, I found this new release a fascinating read.