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| The Encyclopedia of Fonts | 
 enlarge | Author: Gwyn Headley
Publisher: Cassell Illustrated
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 141810
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 496
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.6
Dimensions (in): 7.2 x 7.1 x 1.5
ISBN: 184403206X
Dewey Decimal Number: 686.224
EAN: 9781844032068
ASIN: 184403206X
Publication Date: December 28, 2005
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Product Description
With its attractive contemporary styling and unbeatable price, this invaluable guide to more than 10,000 fonts and computer typefaces is an essential purchase for graphic designers. The world of type has undergone massive changes in the past few years, allowing designers to order, pay for, and download a font in just a few minutes; the challenge is to select the right type beforehand, and that’s where this huge encyclopedia is a boon. With fonts ranging from Arabic to Bitstream to Teluga, it offers unrivaled inspiration to those who work with type everyday.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
 This is not a encyclopedia November 10, 2008
The Encyclopedia of Fonts it's something like a catalog. I think It will be more informative and deep about fonts
Font Book June 28, 2008
This book is full of fonts. It truly has every font I have ever seen in it. However the font sizes are so incredibly small that they are hard to actually look at. I wish it were printed a little bigger, but it is overall helpful.
THE TYPE IS WAY TOO small November 10, 2007
Very nice book that's just WAY TOO SMALL!!!, it's MORONIC to publish an encyclopedia of "anything" that measures 7x7 inches, serifs and other details are negligible.....it cannot be considered a definitive font reference book at this size, THE PRINT IS TOO SMALL!!!!, which is frustrating because that's exactly why I did (or you would) purchase this book. If they make the letters bigger it's a classic, at this size it's almost garbage.
 big book, lots of fonts January 11, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
It is a large book with lots of fonts but the fonts are so small you can hardly see them. This is more of a reference font book than anything.
Not exactly what I was expecting December 18, 2006
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
I guess I didn't read the other reviews as carefully as I should have. I was looking for a book which would list the various fonts and give a complete (A-Z) example.
This book does that, but the author is primarily concerned with the history of fonts, which I don't really have any interest in nor is it relative to my needs. I wanted an alphabetical listing of fonts so I could flip through the book and find a font that fit my project. I haven't really figured out her organization, it's supposed to be by style and historical order, I think, I don't have the time or interest to figure it out. It's annoying. Finding examples of the fonts I have is tedious. I have to look them up in the index then find them in the book. Doesn't allow for the quick flip through I wanted to aid in font selection.
I decided to look up my fonts and hi-lite them, but this is a slow process and the ink hi-liting doesn't dry as quickly as I'd like causing the opposite page to pick up some of the color which may be confusing later. I've also found many of my most interesting fonts are not in this book. Plus sometimes her examples look nothing like my font with the same name, like architec. Her example is much heavier and nothing like the font I've seen in so many places. There are no dingbat fonts either, which I was really hoping for.
Considering it's girth it is amazing that so many semi-common fonts are left out; fonts often used in commercial layout.
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