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Simon Garfield’s book “Just My Type” opens with an epigraph from a 1936 issue of TIME magazine: “In Budapest, surgeons operated on printer’s apprentice Gyoergyi Szabo, 17, who, brooding over the loss ...

Type is everywhere we look. We are constantly bombarded with text set in a variety of fonts, screaming at us, whispering at us, seducing us. But, just like the quality of the text it's displaying, the ...

Too busy trying to survive and insure the survival of their offspring, our ancestors didn’t have the luxury of analyzing their relationships. Modern people overthink everything, approaching romantic ...

Simon Garfield's Just My Type, published in England by the same people who brought us Eats, Shoots & Leaves, hopes to do for type fonts what Lynne Truss' surprise best-seller did for commas. For those ...

On 12 June 2005, a fifty-year-old man stood up in front of a crowd of students at Stanford University and spoke of his campus days at a 'lesser institution' — Reed College in Portland, Oregon.

You don't have to thrill at the curve of an ampersand to appreciate all that is Simon Garfield's "Just My Type: A Book About Fonts. " We may be closer to our fonts than ever before — we pick, we ...

A book about font design and typography — what a snoozer, right? Wrong. “Just My Type,” on sale Thursday, is informative, delightful — and essential reading for word geeks everywhere. Simon Garfield, ...

Artist and printmaker Lynn M. Jones, who owns Just My Type in Old Town, is expanding her business by launching a new brand for her line of cards and original prints called Lynn-oleum. “I’m not leaving ...