Fabulous Fonts: A Knowledge Cards Deck of Classic Type Design

Typography is a bubbling ferment in which venerable, conservative, and highly readable typefaces (and their descendants) mix with bizarre, sometimes over-the-top display fonts. This deck of 48 cards gives you a full specimen of a given typeface (upper- and lowercase alphabets, numbers, special characters) on one side of each card. On the other side are succinct and knowledgeable notes about the designer who created the face, random and relevant history, observations on design minutiae, apt comparisons with other faces, and the occasional restrained backhand to episodes of typographical folly. Witty, accurate, and deeply informed, these Knowledge Cards provide an absorbing entree to the noble art of typographic design. By Gwyn Headley. Size: 3 1/4 x 4 inches.