Es mi tipo: Un libro sobre fuentes tipográficas
- ISBN-10
- 8430608605
- ISBN-13
- 9788430608607
- Category
- Design
- Pages
- 326
- Language
- Spanish
- Published
- 2011-12-14
- Publisher
- TAURUS
- Author
- Simon Garfield
Description
¿Cuál es tu tipo? Una desenfadada introducción al mundo de la tipografía. Desde que las tipografías se mudaron a la barra de herramientas del ordenador todos comenzamos a tener una opinión sobre ellas. Hoy es imposible ignorar su poder, su omnipresencia en las marcas que nos rodean o el carácter que imprimen a nuestros textos. Y si no, ¿por qué despierta tantas antipatías el uso de Comic Sans? ¿A qué se debió el revuelo causado cuando Ikea fue infiel a Futura con Verdana? ¿Por qué Obama decidió optar por la Gotham como su distintivo gráfico? ¿Qué hace que una tipografía «funcione»? Este divertido libro, profusamente ilustrado, cuenta la historia de más de doscientas fuentes desde su nacimiento -y en algunos casos hasta su muerte- a través de anécdotas sobre su empleo, sus creadores y sus usuarios. Garfield explica los fenómenos que hay detrás del dominio de fuentes comoHelvética o Times New Roman o del odio hacia otras como Papyrus. Es mi tipo tiene todas las respuestas para quienes alguna vez se preguntaron qué tienen en común EasyJet y los Beach Boys, cuál es la tipografía favorita de Hollywood o si, como las personas, algunas fuentes son de Marte y otras son de Venus.
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