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# The Geometry of Type: The Anatomy of 100 Essential Typefaces

**Brand:** stephen coles
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- **What is this?** The Geometry of Type: The Anatomy of 100 Essential Typefaces by stephen coles
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Clear and concise reference book
  

*by O***Y on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 May 2014*

I appreciate the clarity of this book very much. When designing and looking at type you're working in a visual medium. The author understands this. No filler here, just facts.The first few pages summarise the different families of type. These will help you identify a style very quickly. However the bulk of the book, some 200+ pages, is given to well organised examples of typefaces with two pages for each face.Every double page spread shows you clearly the key features of the typeface. The illustrations are large enough that every detail can be seen, with each key detail noted and explained. A brief summary of the face and its relation to others is given, but most of the page is quite rightly dedicated to showing you the detail rather than just telling you.To Sum Up: It's become my preferred reference book on Typefaces. I'd suggest it as an essential buy for students and for anyone who loves type.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    One of the very best books on type design
  

*by S***L on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 March 2014*

This is one of the very best books on type design. In recent years digital techniques have made the design of fonts more widespread - no more engraving of punches and making of matrices - and there is a much wider awareness of the nuances of letter design. Stephen Coles covers the ground very fully, from the designs that emerged in the infancy of printing to the latest digital productions. But this is not an historical book: it divides typefaces up into different groups and families and with clear examples and explanations points to the similarities and the differences - and these fonts are available to designers now. Mr Coles, with his clear text large and colourful illustrations makes font design tremendously exciting.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Why, 1000 typefaces: that would be useful! Artbook that begs for a digital follow up - preferably: of gargantuan proportions.
  

*by G***I on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 February 2013*

Taste is essential. It is also the ultimately intimate, inborn faculty - some of us may be less blessed with it, some would never bother, blinded by moral horror, which is assailing us every single day on news frontpages, every single second on our net appliances or mobile gadgets...A shame on us all. Remember: in order to hope you are not the a fatally lazy and useless animal, you should change, substantially, your damn life one (next?) Monday morning. [*]I swallowed the book overnight, now I have been savouring its tiny bits, turning its glorious pages back and forth, whenever I am not praising it to my colleagues, neighbors, collaborators and any faint acquaintances I could button down on the street.The Book is fine, it is fresh and modern, yet full of immaterial, almost altruistic value. I've learned that I did not know (despite couple of years acknowledged professional experience... Shame!) so incredibly many things about te art of typeface * (Cf.: Rilke's sonnet: "archaisches Torso Apollos"Further reading: Erik Spiekerman: Ursache und Wirkung. Ein typographischer Roman. H. Berthold, Berlin 1986.

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