Article in the NYT about the book – Just My Type: A Book About Fonts
Excerpt from article:
A sizable swath of the population knows all about font design for reasons having to do with livelihood. After all, knowledge of fonts is essential to advertising, book publishing, professions (like law) that require thoughtfully chosen stationery and any written work that can be done on a home computer. Personal computers are the main reason that font fandom and do-it-yourself design have snowballed in the last two decades. Had Steven Jobs not taken a shine to calligraphy as a college student and decided to include a choice of fonts in computer software, we might not be having this conversation.
Read full article here: Font Pain and Poetry: So Much Depends on a Curve
Up 427,388%
This book is up 427,388% in sales rank at Amazon. The book was at 38,474 and now it is the number 9 book on Amazon.