Comic Sans: The Biography of a Typeface (The ABC of Fonts)

(Hardback)

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Comic Sans is one of the most used and most reviled typefaces of the digital age. How was it made How could it spawn a thousand jokes and yet still be so widely praised by educators What does its accidental creator think of its use and misuse

This quirky and unique book examines how the computer transformed type into something that anyone could use and have an opinion on; how a typeface, correctly used, may sell us almost anything; and how new types with names such as Sunday Flicker, Pinky Stone and Irongate (to name but three out of the hundreds issued this year) each attempt to keep the alphabet exciting and new.

Author Bio

Simon Garfield is the author of the international bestsellers Just My Type, On the Map and Mauve, while To the Letter was one of the inspirations for the theatre shows Letters Live with Benedict Cumberbatch. His study of AIDS in Britain, The End of Innocence, won the Somerset Maugham prize.