Laurence King The Visual History of Type Hardcover – Big Book, 11 September 2017

Can spend hours gazing at each spread. Super meticulous and we'll researched. Consistently presented. A pleasure to have and proudly displayed.

I've had an interest in type and typography for more than three decades, and I wish something like this had been available when I was younger. The book deserves every bit of the praise it gets here.The writer of the worst review ("Yes, it has classic fonts in it like Garamond, but it lacks anything new and exciting. The fonts are also not shown with interesting examples. Each page is pretty boring.") simply does not understand the book's purpose. If you're interested in the history of type, as 99% of the readers of a "Visual History of Type" would likely be, you're going to be absolutely fascinated by the fonts and carefully selected historic samples.Another reviewer lowered his favorable rating a star because of a perceived ghosting or fuzziness around the blacks in the color illustrations of the samples used, which he speculated might be caused by "misaligned toner," although he concedes the monochrome printing of the text itself on the same pages is very crisp and high quality.I kept that criticism in mind when I read the book, but as a former proofreader in a printing plant I got the impression that the occasional scant fuzziness in the photographic illustrations existed as artifacts from the original printing of the samples (with a variety of processes over the course of five centuries).I'll concede I didn't inspect each page with a magnifying glass, but I didn't see anything I thought was caused by a registration error in the printing of the present volume.

I've wanted this book for a long time, I finally managed to get it! It doesn't disappoint, excellent quality! Book to have on your side.

O livro é enorme, com acabamento excelente. Em cada família tipográfica temos uma grande imagem com um uso real. É possível entender a evolução e as peculiaridades das letras. Um ótimo livro para quem quer se aprofundar em tipografia e desenho de letras.

Sto libro è un vero e proprio gigante della tipografia!Nel senso che è veramente grosso: 3 chili e 600+ pagine. Ma io adoro i libroni giganti che per sfogliare devi far posto sulla scrivania, sono l'unico?E questo, con oltre 320 tipi di carattere presentati nel dettaglio, questo è davvero una festa per gli occhi.È una risorsa indispensabile per chiunque sia appassionato di design, storia o semplicemente della bellezza dei caratteri tipografici.Su Instagram mi hanno chiesto di consigliare un libro sui caratteri tipografici e questo è sicuramente la mia prima scelta.

El libro es excelente. Es una pieza fundamental que debe estar en tu biblioteca si te dedicas a cualquier área relacionada con el diseño gráfico.El autor hace una recopilación de las tipografías más importantes a lo largo de la historia, las define y las relaciona entre ellas. Aprenderás mucho acerca de los tipos de letras y sus familias, pero además te resultará muy útil para decidir qué tipo de letra encaja mejor en este proyecto que tienes entre manos.La encuadernación también merece una mención por su magnífica calidad, lo mismo que ocurre con la impresión y la calidad del papel.Por lo que respecta al envío del libro, lamentablemente, hay que destacar lo descuidado que ha sido. Como consecuencia de un embalaje negligente, el libro ha llegado marcado en su portada y manchado en la parte inferior de las páginas. Afortunadamente, el contenido está indemne.