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Just My Type

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by Simon Garfield


  Wedding Collection 33

  Aftershock Debris 296

  Agfa/Computagraphic 18

  Akzidenz Grotesk (Standard Medium) 43–4, 127, 134, 152, 152, 201

  Akzidenz Grotesk Book 221

  Albarn, Damon 273

  Albertus 65, 68–70, 69, 70, 100, 243, 264, 308

  Allen, Lily 274

  Allen, Woody 40

  Allford, David 150

  Alligators 14

  Alpha Charlie 14

  Alphabet Metro 125–6, 135

  Amazon Kindle 322

  Ambroise Light 32

  American Airlines 137–9, 138

  American Apparel 134

  American Declaration of Independence 15

  American Gothic 14

  American Type Founders Company (ATF) 198, 200, 201, 225, 301, 304

  American Typewriter 223, 297, 303

  Amigo 14

  Amorpheus 14

  ampersand 95–101, 97, 99, 100

  Ancient Black 239

  Anderson, Colin 151

  Andreena 14

  Andrews, Sybil 120

  Anglia Script 291

  Angry 14

  Antique Olive 146, 146, 193, 283

  Any Time Now 14

  Apolline 231

  Apple 12, 13, 18, 110, 143, 245n, 319, 322, 323

  Applicants, the: ‘Times New Roman’ 276

  Arbiter, Ivor 272

  Arbuckle 14

  Archer Hairline 318–19

  Arctic Monkeys: ‘Cornerstone’ 168

  Arial 31, 218, 221–3, 222, 229, 297, 299, 315, 331

  Arial Black 25, 147

  Arial Extra Bold 53

  Aries 50

  Arnold Böcklin 14

  Arquitectura 33, 33

  art deco 126, 275

  Art Gallery 14

  art nouveau 125

  ascenders 45, 45

  asciicircum (caret) 268

  Ashley Crawford 14

  ‘at’ (@) sign 268

  ATF Cooper Hilite 54n, 55

  Atlas (Fatima) 275

  Augspurg, Albert 174

  Augusto, Yomar 146–7

  Aunt Mildred 293

  Aurora 176

  Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice 32

  Avalon 305

  Avant Garde 297

  Avatar (film) 305, 307

  Avérous, Luce 178

  Baby Teeth 321, 321

  Baines, Phil 247

  Balboa 278

  ball point pen 161

  Bananas (film) 40

  BANANA.strip Regular 182

  Banco 193, 283

  Banjoman 14

  Banks, Colin 123–4

  Banks & Miles 122, 124

  Bannikova 14

  Barker, Christopher: Bible typo 244, 244

  Barnbrook, Jonathan 256, 293

  Barnes, Paul 266

  Barnhart Brothers & Spindler 54

  Barrett, William 203

  base line 45

  Baskerville 13, 28, 42, 63, 102–10, 111, 176, 198, 205, 217, 218, 242, 249, 284

  fate of the punches and matrices 108

  upper-case Q 103, 104

  Baskerville, John 102–9, 107, 108, 111, 113, 141

  Baskerville, Sarah (previously Eaves) 104–5, 106

  Baskerville Old Face 223

  Bastarda 38, 188

  Battersea Fun Fair, London 150

  Batty, Mark 301

  Typographic Papers Series (Volume 1) 296

  Bauer Type Foundry 284, 290

  Bauhaus 155, 187, 251

  Bawden, Edward 69, 120

  Baylac 14

  BBC 24, 40, 50, 79, 183

  Beach Boys 54–5, 56

  beard 46

  Beatles, the 270–74, 271, 275

  The Beatles: Rockband (video game) 270–71, 272, 273

  Beaujon, Paul see Warde, Beatrice

  Beaumarchais, Pierre de 108

  Bell 176, 243

  Bell Centennial 74

  Bell (now AT&T) phonebook 74

  Bembo 13, 32, 58, 59, 83, 86, 122, 147, 175, 217, 242, 297

  Bembo Book 32

  Benton, Linn Boyd 239

  Benton, Morris Fuller 201, 202, 301

  Bents, Nigel 261–2

  Berry, W Turner 173

  Beziers 287

  Bienvenue 230, 231

  Bifur 318

  Biggs, John 58

  Bighouse 310

  Bingo 14

  Binner 14

  Binny, Archibald 198

  Binny & Ronaldson 197–8

  Binoche, Juliette 72

  Bismarck, Prince: supplied with Musgrave’s Ulster Stoves 242

  Bitstream digital foundry website 177

  Bitstream Inc 77

  Black, Roger 281

  BlackBerry 322

  BlackBerry Alpha Serif 322

  blackletter (Gothic) type 60, 188, 189, 190–92, 190, 192, 197, 201, 202–3, 242, 279, 282, 308

  Blacklight 14

  BlackMail 310

  Blackshirt 296

  Blickensderfer typewriter 171–2

  blink tests 58–9

  Blippo 14, 72

  Bliss 232

  Blur 182, 264

  Bodega Sans 73

  Bodoni 13, 42, 59, 59, 174, 198, 204, 205, 206, 217, 242, 294

  Bodoni, Giambattista 204, 205

  Bodoni 135, 176

  Bodoni Book 176

  Bodoni Ultra Bold 50

  body 46

  Bold Italic Techno 297

  Bollocks 182

  Book Antiqua 13

  Bookman 73, 126, 197

  bowl 45

  bracketed serif 45, 103

  Braggadocio 14, 223

  Briem, Gunnlaugur SE 74

  Bringhurst, Robert: The Elements of Typographic Style 258

  British Library, London 38–9

  British Railways 50

  British Standards Classification of Typefaces 44

  British Typographers Guild 64

  Broadway 176

  Brody, Neville 262–6, 263, 264

  Bruce, David, Jr 239

  Bruce New York type foundry 282

  Brush Script 13, 297, 303–5, 304

  Bubble Bath 14, 14

  Bubbles, Barney 263

  Buffalo 266

  Bunyan 50

  Burns, Aaron 169

  Burton, Tim 92

  Café Mimi 305

  Cahalan, Anthony 296–8

  Calibri 14, 28, 268, 330–31, 330

  Californian 202

  Calliope 305

  Calvert 159

  Calvert, Margaret 148–54, 149, 156, 157, 158–9

  Cambridge University Press 108

  Cameron, James 305–6

  Canicopulus 49

  Carmine Tango 279n

  Carter, Harry 76, 77

  A View of Early Typography Up to About 1600 83–4

  Carter, Matthew 15, 60–61, 71–8, 77, 82, 186, 193, 198, 200, 201, 227–8, 229, 260, 261, 263, 288–9, 294, 320–22

  Carter, Sebastian 260–61

  Carter, Will 261

  Carter & Cone 77

  Caslon 13, 101, 103, 107, 108, 170, 197, 198, 217, 237, 282

  Caslon, William 14, 96, 98–9, 99, 141

  Caslon AntT 279n

  Caslon Bold 225

  Caslon dynasty 239

  Caslon Egyptian 43

  Casson, Sir Hugh 153

  cast type 34, 35

  Cats, backs of: used in Old Dreadful 182

  Cavazos, Rodrigo Xavier (RXC) 325–7, 327

  Caxton, William 39, 87–9, 88

  Vocabulary in French and English 87

  Centaur 14, 33, 33

  Century 14, 28, 218

  Century Gothic 300

  Century Old Style 175, 175

  Century Schoolbook 175, 175, 176, 244

  Ceska Unicals 174

  Chalkduster 305

  Charles, HRH The Prince of Wales 172

  chase 37

  Chatto 238
/>   Chaucer, Geoffrey 39

  Canterbury Tales 88–9

  Cheap Thrills 278

  Cheese or Font game 323

  Cheltenham (Chelt) 199–201, 200, 225, 306

  Cheltenham Press 200

  Chicago 12, 13, 72, 183

  Chisel 217

  Chocolat (film) 72

  City of London 68–9, 70

  Clarendon 23

  Clarity 322

  Cleverdon, Douglas 49

  Clinton, Hillary 210, 214

  Cobden-Sanderson, Annie 92, 94

  Cobden-Sanderson, Thomas 90, 91, 92–4, 92, 117

  Cochin 110, 281

  Coen Brothers 72

  Coldplay: Parachutes 70, 70

  Coleman, Norm 212

  Coles, Stephen 179–80, 229, 291–2, 293

  Collegiate 146

  Columbia 176

  Combs, Holly and David 25–6

  Comic Book 20

  Comic Sans 17–18, 20, 20, 22–9, 146, 223, 239, 297

  in all its childlike glory 22

  for attention-seekers 314

  backlash against 24–6, 24, 28, 298–9

  candy, tombstones and irritable bowel syndrome 26

  Coming Together 100, 101

  Compacta 165

  computers 172, 322–3

  Cone, Cherie 77

  Connare, Vincent 18–24

  Conservative Party 217, 218

  Consolas 330

  Cooper, Oswald Bruce 53–4

  Cooper Black 53–5, 55, 56, 60

  Cooper Black Italic 318, 319

  Corbusier Stencil 318

  Corona 176

  Costello, Chris 306

  counters 45, 60

  Courier 297, 303, 314, 316, 319, 330

  Courier 12

  Italic 171

  Craft Creations of Cheshunt 170

  Creative Companion Library 245n

  Cursiva 188

  da Spira brothers font 84–5, 84

  Dad’s Army (TV comedy) 52–3, 55

  Daines, Mike 169

  Damon & Peets 225

  Darden, Joshua 179

  Davies, Dai 165

  Day, John 238

  DC comics 21

  De Groot, Luc(as) 327–30, 329

  De Vinne 206

  de Vinne Press 199

  De Worde, Wynkyn 89

  Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (film) 72

  Deberny & Peignot 139–40, 167

  Deck, Barry 49

  Declaration of Independence 107, 197

  Delegate 171

  Deliscript Italic 177

  DeLittle company 237

  Della Robbia 174

  Department of Transport 153, 154

  depth scale 46

  descenders 45, 45

  desktop publishing 13, 165

  Deutsche Schrift 190, 192

  DeVito, Danny 73

  Didone form 44, 206, 281

  Didot 13, 32, 103, 198, 219

  Didot, Firmin 205

  Dieterich, Johannes Christian 104

  Din 182

  DIN (Deutsche Industrie Norm) 151–2

  Diotima 169

  Disney 28

  Dixon, Catherine 247

  Dot Matrix 319

  dot test 63, 63

  Doves – the type that drowned 90, 91, 92–4

  Doves Bible 90, 91, 92

  Doves Press 90, 93, 246

  Dow Text 26

  Down Under Heavy 177

  dry transfer 167, 170

  Duensing, Paul Hayden 258

  Dwiggins, William Addison 27

  Dymo label maker 164–5, 164, 277

  Dymo Roman 165

  dyslexic children 27n

  easyJet 53, 54, 56

  Eaves, Richard 111

  Eclipse 303

  Ecofont 299–300, 299

  Economist, The 184

  Ed Wood (film) 72

  Edwards, John 210

  Egyptian 207, 208

  Ehrhardt 243, 244

  Electra 27, 132

  electrotyping machine 224

  Elliott’s Blue Eyeshadow 182

  Emerson 243

  Emigre magazine 60, 62

  Empire fonts 293

  Empiriana 174

  Encyclopaedia of Type Faces 173–4, 176, 177, 180

  Enschedé 76

  Entebbe 310

  Epstein, Brian 270

  Erasmus Initials 174

  Erbar 117

  Erbar, Jakob 117

  Eros 169

  Excoffon, Roger 193

  Expanded Antique 319, 319

  F2F Prototipa Multipla 182

  Faber & Faber 69, 69, 238

  face 46

  Face, The magazine 262–4, 263, 264

  Fact 169

  Fairfield 206

  Falafal 182

  Falstaff 208

  Fat Face 207, 208, 215, 277

  Fear Unknown 299

  Felicity 50

  Felton, Paul: The Ten Commandments of Typography/Type Heresy 255–6, 257

  Fenice 206

  Festival of Britain 149, 150

  Festival Titling 243

  FF Chernobyl 291

  FF Dirtyfax 289, 290

  FF Govan 183

  FF Info 183, 297

  FF Meta 183

  FF Tisa 291

  Figgins Antique 208

  finals 140

  Fletcher, Alan 57

  Flieger 291

  Floydian 273

  Fonderie Olive 283

  FontAid 101

  FontBook (FontShop) 181–3, 183

  FontLab Studio 320

  Fontographer 228, 258, 322

  fonts: derivation and usage of the word 39–40

  FontShop 181, 182, 228–9, 289, 290, 291, 293

  Fontsmith 231, 232, 302

  ‘fount of all knowledge, the’ 86–7

  founts 39

  Fournier, Pierre Simon 106

  Fraktur 146, 188, 190, 191

  Française type foundry 275

  France Telecom 230, 231

  Frankfurter 165

  Franklin, Benjamin 106–7, 197, 201

  Franklin Gothic 126, 175, 175, 201–2, 297

  Fraterdeus, Peter 258

  Freedom Tower, Ground Zero, New York 218, 219

  Freight Sans Black 179–80

  French, Melinda (Mrs Bill Gates) 19

  French National Institute for Intellectual Property 232

  Frere-Jones, Tobias 209–12, 214, 219, 318

  Front, Charles 274

  Frutiger 14, 144–6, 145, 147, 229, 245n, 296

  Frutiger, Adrian 57, 125–6, 139–45, 141, 186, 288

  Frutiger Stones 146

  Fry, Joseph 239

  Fry, Stephen 164

  FS Lola 231, 232

  Fust, Johannes 38, 84

  Futura 43, 80, 81, 81, 82, 117, 139, 146, 170, 175, 175, 186, 187, 191, 194, 195, 196, 196, 215, 234, 264, 288, 290, 296, 308

  Futura Bold 276

  Futura Only Shadow 303

  Ganeau, François 283

  Garamond 14–15, 59, 59, 98, 98, 170, 175, 175, 242, 251, 265, 297

  Garamond, Claude 14, 96–8, 96, 97, 283

  Gatwick Airport 150–51

  gender of type 33, 33

  Geneva 13, 315

  George III, King 104

  Georgia 15, 28, 74, 177, 229, 233, 260, 261, 319, 322

  Get Back 273n

  Gill, Eric 44, 48–51, 51, 60, 63, 100–101, 117, 118, 156, 190, 201, 243, 255, 290, 302, 318

  Essay on Typography 50–51

  Gill Sans 13, 14, 28, 42–4, 48–51, 49, 50, 69, 78, 117, 122, 124, 146, 150, 159, 175, 175, 186, 211, 215, 219, 237, 243, 275, 290, 295, 297, 308, 319

  Gill Sans Bold Condensed 264

  Gill Sans Light Shadowed 302–3, 302

  Gillett, John 163–4

  Glaser, Milton 320–21, 321

  Glaser Stencil 321

  Gloriola Display Standard Fat 177

  Golden Cockerel 50
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  Golden Cockerel Press 246

  Golden Type 90

  golfball typefaces 171, 171, 328

  Good Dog 178

  Goodhue, Bertram Grosvenor 200

  Google 74, 181, 237

  Gorey, Edward 92

  Gorillaz 273

  Gotham 15, 209–12, 211, 213, 214, 218, 219, 265

  Goudy 217

  Goudy, Frederic W 54, 202–4, 204, 225, 256

  Typologia 204

  Goudy Italic 203

  Goudy Old Style 63, 175, 175, 202, 272

  Goudy Text 202–3, 203

  Gourdie, Tom 160–61, 161, 162

  GQ magazine 212, 213

  Grace Period: ‘Boring Arial Layout’ 276

  Granjon 249, 251

  Granjon, Robert 99

  Grant, John Cameron 124

  Graphic form 44

  Graphic Tweets 82

  Grassy 299

  Gray, John: Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus 33, 33

  Griffin, Rick 280, 280

  Griffo, Francesco 85–6, 96

  Grimm, Brothers 190

  grot 47

  Grotesque form 44, 47

  Grunge fonts (generic) 297

  Guardian Egyptian 265–6

  Guardian newspaper 40

  April fool 39

  redesigned 265–6

  Guimard, Hector 125, 125

  Gutenberg, Johannes 13, 28–9, 33–4, 36–8, 79, 84, 85, 89, 141, 164, 188, 239, 240

  Bible 36–9, 162, 202, 235

  mass production 34, 37

  scale of achievements 37

  Guy, Peter 301

  Haas foundry, Münchenstein 134

  HADOPI 230–32

  Haettenschweiler 320

  Haley, Allan 229, 230

  Hall, Alistair 247

  Hallmark fonts 278–9

  Hamamoto, Chris 292, 293

  Hamburgers, Hamburgerfont 288, 289

  Handgloves 289, 290, 292, 293

  Hands 182

  handwriting 160–62, 161, 304–5

  Handy, John 103, 108

  Harlequin 170

  Harrington 320

  Hegner, Jakob 194

  Helios 221

  Helvetica 12, 13, 14, 43, 44, 55, 128, 129, 130, 131–9, 140, 143, 144, 145, 147, 148, 152, 158, 159, 170, 193, 201, 212, 218, 220–23, 222, 225, 229, 243, 265, 268, 273, 284, 296, 297, 322, 329

  clones 220–21, 227

  a non-Helvetica day 131–2

  Helvetica (film) 131, 132–3, 133, 185, 210

  Helvetica Compressed 73

  Helvetica Extra Bold 135

  Helvetica Extra Light 134–5

  Helvetica Neue 136–7, 296, 297, 316

  Henrietta Samuels 293

  Herculanum 13

  Hewlett, Jamie 273

  Highsmith, Cyrus 131–2

  breakfasting without Helvetica 131

  Hoefler, Jonathan 214, 287, 318

  Hoefler & Frere-Jones 209, 219

  Hoefler Text 316

  Hoffmann, Eduard 134

  Hogarth 239

  Horsey 278

  Hounslow 182

  HT Gelateria 305

  Hudsucker Proxy, The (film) 72–3

  Humana Serif ITC TT Light 315–16

  Humanist form 44

  Hustwit, Gary 131, 210

  I Don’t Know 278

  IBM 13

  IBM Selectric Typewriter 170–72, 171

  iBooks 110, 110, 322

  IKEA 74, 79–82, 129, 194

  Impact 25, 239

 

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