--- product_id: 60992192 title: "The Geometry of Type: The Anatomy of 100 Essential Typefaces" price: "55.91 DT" currency: TND in_stock: false reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.tn/products/60992192-the-geometry-of-type-the-anatomy-of-100-essential-typefaces store_origin: TN region: Tunisia --- # The Geometry of Type: The Anatomy of 100 Essential Typefaces **Price:** 55.91 DT **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Geometry of Type: The Anatomy of 100 Essential Typefaces - **How much does it cost?** 55.91 DT with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tn](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/60992192-the-geometry-of-type-the-anatomy-of-100-essential-typefaces) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description The Geometry of Type explores 100 traditional and modern typefaces in detail, with a full spread devoted to each entry. Characters from each typeface are enlarged and annotated to reveal key features, anatomical details, and the finer, often-overlooked elements of type design, which shows how these attributes affect mood and readability. Sidebar information lists the designer and foundry, the year of release and the different weights and styles available, while feature boxes explain the origins and best uses for each typeface, such as whether it is suitable for running text or as a display font for headlines. To help the reader spot each typeface in the wider world, the full character set is shown, and the best letters for identification are highlighted. This beautiful and highly practical work of reference for font spotters, designers and users is a close-up celebration of typefaces and great type design. Review: Clear and concise reference book - 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. Review: The Geometry of Type - A very good guide to type design, details, uses and short foreword by Spiekermann. A useful glossary, anatomical look at type and classification guide. 100 typefaces categorised through out... ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | 733,756 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 279 in Typography in Graphic Arts | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 83 Reviews | ## Images ![The Geometry of Type: The Anatomy of 100 Essential Typefaces - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61RerSdnzqL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Clear and concise reference book *by O***Y 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. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Geometry of Type *by M***G on 26 January 2014* A very good guide to type design, details, uses and short foreword by Spiekermann. A useful glossary, anatomical look at type and classification guide. 100 typefaces categorised through out... ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Why, 1000 typefaces: that would be useful! Artbook that begs for a digital follow up - preferably: of gargantuan proportions. *by G***I 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. 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