Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks

Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks
Author: Keith Houston
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2013-09-24
Genre: Design
ISBN: 0393064425

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Revealing the secret history of punctuation, this tour of two thousand years of the written word, from ancient Greece to the Internet, explores the parallel histories of language and typography throughout the world and across time.


Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks
Language: en
Pages: 353
Authors: Keith Houston
Categories: Design
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-09-24 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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Pages: 517
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Categories: History
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Language: en
Pages: 388
Authors: Simon Garfield
Categories: Design
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-09-01 - Publisher: Penguin

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A hugely entertaining and revealing guide to the history of type that asks, What does your favorite font say about you? Fonts surround us every day, on street s
Shady Characters
Language: en
Pages: 192
Authors: Keith Houston
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-10 - Publisher: Penguin UK

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Keith Houston's entertaining book, inspired by his popular blog shadycharacters.co.uk, tells the unexpected stories of some unusual, and familiar, typographical
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Language: en
Pages: 345
Authors: Stephen Spector
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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This book is designed to help readers punctuate confidently and effectively through enjoyable and illuminating lessons that draw on the words of great writers,