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Gwyn Headley (Author)
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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.

About the Author

Gwyn Headley worked for Hamlyn, Collins, Granada, Ward Lock and W H Allen before co-founding publishing consultants Headley Plachta Rolfe in 1977. HPR has consulted for over 500 publishers in Europe, America, the Middle East and Australasia. He is the author of several books including London with Lord Snowden, Follies, and Museums.

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  • Paperback: 496 pages
  • Publisher: Cassell Illustrated (December 28, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 184403206X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1844032068
  • Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 7.1 x 1.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #806,108 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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2.0 out of 5 stars Ridiculously small printing- hard to see important detail, September 29, 2006
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The printing was quite UNNECESSARILY small, and it is very difficult seeing the details clearly with the naked eye on many of the more elaborate fonts. Mr. Headley may have done a nice job putting this book together (the two stars are for him and him alone), but the publisher has cheated both the editor and the reader by apparently trying to save an extra buck where printing costs were concerned. I was extremely disappointed with this volume.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars portable great font book, March 4, 2006
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It shows A-Z both in upper and lower case and numbers for every font. Nice and clear design of the display for different fonts. Index of fonts in the back is easy to find a font if you know the name. Besides, there is another index of fontographers. It doesn't show font family though. It shows only the basic type in a font family, but it's OK to me. It's hard to look up a font if you don't know the name. It seperates fonts into 6 catagory - uncial & black letter, Serifs, Lineales, Miscellaneous, Scripts and Display. Under the catagory, also has subcatagory. I like it and I think it is a very good deal of the price, too.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars big book, lots of fonts, January 11, 2007
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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.
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2.0 out of 5 stars buy a magnifying glass
This book was very disappointing. I needed different fonts to use in art projects and it is very difficult to see the fonts in this book. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Lori Tan

2.0 out of 5 stars This is not a encyclopedia
The Encyclopedia of Fonts it's something like a catalog. I think It will be more informative and deep about fonts
Published 22 months ago by Erjos Rolo

3.0 out of 5 stars Font Book
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. Read more
Published on June 28, 2008 by Tammie Nettleton

2.0 out of 5 stars THE TYPE IS WAY TOO small
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..... Read more
Published on November 9, 2007 by Tex Tosterone

2.0 out of 5 stars Not exactly what I was expecting
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... Read more
Published on December 18, 2006 by Megan Mcguire

5.0 out of 5 stars A Beautiful Book and Great Reference
This is one of my all-time favorite type specimen books. It's beautifully designed and printed. Easy to handle and has about 12,000 of the best of the digital typefaces. Read more
Published on November 30, 2006 by Bill

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