Typographic Specimens: The Great Typefaces 1st Edition

This is a great book to have handy for when you're looking for a the "perfect" typeface for your project. This one focuses on classic typefaces for a variety of purposes and helps show some of the subtle differences in structure between different serif and sans serif typefaces.

This book is amazing. I like all the simple fonts that I have been looking for. I do art so this book comes in handy when I have a letter project

I only got this book because of my Expressive Typography class, some of the digital renditions of the typefaces are kinda wonky, but other than that, its a good reference book.

Lots of typography to learn

The content and subject matter of this book is great, with one caveat. This version of the book on Amazon is incredibly poorly printed compared the the versions I have seen in stores. Type appearing at large sizes is ok, but the majority of the body copy is dismal. It's a great manual for type specimens in theory, but the quality of the printing nearly defeats the purpose of owning this book.

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If you are a graphic designer, then you definitely need to have this helpful book. It is so much cheaper than the student book store. Very pleasant deal =)

Printed on very thin papers. I can see through the page behind and one page underneath. This is a graphics book, so being able to see the nuances and details of the images/diagrams are important. So why would they print a graphics image book on a newspaper-like thin papers? Returned.