Type Selector [Cards]

Michael Worgotter (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 17, 2006

A user-friendly font swatch: an ingenious reference for anyone working in advertising, design, or publishing.

A user-friendly font swatch: an ingenious reference for anyone working in advertising, design, or publishing.

If you're familiar with the Pantone color guide and can't imagine working without it at your desk and in presentations and meetings, have you ever wondered why there's not an equivalent tool for fonts and typefaces?

Type Selector is the answer. This clever and unique new slipcased guide contains 226 fonts from all the major type libraries in well over 1,000 typefaces. The selection ranges from classic fonts to new- comers, from Baskerville, Bodoni, and Jansen to Auto, Farnham Text, and Ginger. Each entry features special characters and includesa passage of dummy text that allows designers to assess the overall appearance and characteristic style of a font.

A complete index of faces and information on suppliers complete this invaluable reference tool.

Fonts are grouped in these categories:
Serif
Slab Serif
Sans Serif
Script
Black Letter
Display

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About the Author

Michael Worgotter has been professor of type, typography and design at the School of Design, Munich, since 2001.

Product Details

• Cards: 240 pages
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson (November 17, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0500241368
• ISBN-13: 978-0500241363
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 2.6 x 2.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #656,011 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very useful product for prepress and graphic designers, May 24, 2007

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J. Pennington (Adelaide, South Australia) - See all my reviews
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I work in pre-press and graphic design, and font matching and searching has got to be one of the most time-consuming and potentially frustrating tasks.
This is the first Type Selector I've seen like this - it mirrors the Pantone colour chart idea, and overall, it's a great product.
The fonts are sorted into serif, slab serif, sans serif, blackletter, script and display, and every entry has lots of information about each font, including where to buy it.
While there are a lot of fonts in the Type Selector, there's obviously a limit to the number they could include in a format like this. Still, even if you can't find the font you're after, it points you in the right direction.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars essential, August 27, 2007

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Andre F. Menezes "if you are not the first, b... (Sorocaba, SP - Brazil) - See all my reviews
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Its format like the Pantone guides makes the task of finding the right font, or right direction, so quick, enjoyable and efficient. It is as the names says "the user-friendly font swatch".

I agree with Ramone C. Munoz that it should be printed on both sides but I could not be with a different font because the search wouldn't be straighforward. Instead I would recomend it to have a basic text layout using all the typeface variations (bold, italic, semibold.. etc) -- I missed this feature as, although we can predict how these variations would look like, a real layout using them tells so much about the typeface.

Again, as J. Pennington stated, "there's obviously a limited amount of typefaces they could include in a format like this. Still, even if you can't find the font you're after, it points you in the right direction".


It has a little more than 200 typefaces.
Sturdy - it will last many years.

4.0 out of 5 stars Type Selector, December 7, 2011

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We bought this as a Christmas gift for my sister-in-law, who is a graphic designer, and we're hoping she'll love it. (: It arrived very quickly and the description was accurate.