Type Matters
The Rhetoricity of Letterforms
Published on 1. September 2017
408 pages
978-1-60235-978-9 (ISBN)
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10/2017
Parlor Press
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Content
- Front cover
- Series page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Introduction: Type Matters
- C. S. Wyatt and Dànielle Nicole DeVoss
- Index
- Contributors
- 1 On Type and Typographic Anatomy
- C. S. Wyatt
- 2 Type Reveals Culture: A Defense of "Bad" Type
- Garrett W. Nichols
- 3 "Give Us Back Our Serifs": The Cultural Rhetoric of Rage Against the [New] Google Logo
- Philip Rice
- 4 The Development of Typeface Personas and the Consequences of Perceived Identities
- Heather Noel Turner
- 5 Nostalgia for Handwriting: The Rhetoric of Comics Lettering
- Aaron Kashtan
- 6 "All Your Font Are Belong to Us": Gaming in the Late Age of Print
- Elizabeth J. Fleitz
- 7 Why I Hate Times New Roman, and Other Confessions of a Creative-Critical Scholar
- Ames Hawkins
- 8 Why Bookerly Isn't (and Why That's Not Such a Terrible Thing)
- John Logie
- 9 Jan Tschichold's Renunciation of Die Neue Typographie: The Anatomy and Ethics of a Typographical Reversal
- David Bedsole
- 10 Typographic Nationalism and the Banal Uniformity of Imagined Communities
- Jake Cowan
- 11 Logotypes in Place: A Visual Rhetorical History of Cigar City
- Meredith A. Johnson, Peter Canno, Roxanna Palmer, Joshua M. Rea, and Tanya Zarlengo
- 12 Font of Wisdom: The Vernacular Rhetoric of the Serenity Prayer
- William T. FitzGerald
- 13 Standardized Typography in Interactive Internet Environments
- John R. Gallagher and Rebecca Tarsa
- 14 Kinetic Typography: Reinserting Embodied Delivery into Recorded Oral Texts
- Christal Seahorn, Diana I. Bowen, Charles Jeffery Darwin, and Dragana Djordjevic
- Type Subject Index
- Keyword Index
- Contributors
- Back cover
