This book celebrates radical typography, a style creating dramatic controversy among designers and artists. It's the old guard vs. the "grunge" typographers, readability vs. a whole look and feel that... This description may be from another edition of this product.
I gave the Mac version of this book as a gift to my hard-to-buy for sister and it was a winner! I am SOOO glad there's a Windows version for the non-Mac crowd. Every book by Robin Williams is visually inspiring and I especially liked the orginality of this one! Keep those books comin' Robin
Great fonts, well written - but maybe overpriced.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 27 years ago
The fonts featured in the book are great. Not only are they varied and interesting, but they are also very versatile. However, if you're not interested in the phsycho-babble, new age publishing, and "celebration of grunge typography", you can find most of the fonts freely available on the internet and packaged with other fonts in larger, less expensive colloections. On the whole, though, it is a good read.
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