The Anatomy of Type: A Graphic Guide to 100 Typefaces

by Stephen Coles

Overview

The Anatomy of Type is the ultimate stylistic guide to the intricacies and design of 100 indispensable typefaces. A delightful, colorful, and visual reference guide created by Stephen Coles and Tony Seddon—two acknowledged pros in the font design world—The Anatomy of Type was developed with typographers, graphic designers, and font geeks in mind, graphically and visually expanding on the current font-mania initiated by Simon Garfields's Just My Type.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062203120
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	11/13/2012
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	639,863
Product dimensions:	7.80(w) x 9.80(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

The former creative director of FontShop, Stephen Coles now edits the websites Typographica, Fonts in Use, and The Mid-Century Modernist, and contributes to Print and Codex magazines. A Type Camp instructor, he is a member of the FontFont TypeBoard. He lives in Oakland, California, and Berlin, Germany.

Editorial Reviews

The Anatomy of Type does for type users what Gray's Anatomy does for pre-med students: it explains characteristic differences in body language—in this case the Western alphabet's most muscular typefaces.

The New York Times Book Review - Steven Heller