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Big Book of 5000 Fonts: (And Where to Get Them)
Author: David E. Carter
Binding: Paperback
Published: 01 February, 2002
ISBN: 0823004899
$30.60
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Big Book of 5000 Fonts: (And Where to Get Them)
by: David E. Carter
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Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 
The Quick Brown Fox is Done Jumping: 
Carter's laid out the fonts by category:
Comic book, retro, calligraphic, block letter, roughish, display, pseudo cultural, grunge, script, technological, illustrated and kids stuff, type-label-stencil, ornamental, others sans, other serif. The organization is clean.
Instead of using the boring text sample that litters the letters sampled in font catalogs, "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog," Carter gifts us with vignettes. The font Scotty Normal is shown with the sample, "Would I have been... more info
Good for browsing fonts, less so for identifying fonts.:
This is a book of font samples. You won't find any information on making your own fonts or installing and using them on a computer. This book won't outline font history or anatomy. It won't tell you how to design with fonts. It's simply page after page of sentences or sentence snippets, each rendered in a different typeface. Each font's name and manufacturer is listed below each sample.
The book is great if you're a would-be font designer and are looking for inspiration. It's great if you're looking for a... more info
Hard to find fonts.: 
This book is creatively written, but has been really no use to me in finding specific fonts. I wish the book were laid out with the same sentence "The Quick Fox Jumped Over the Lazy Brown Dog" instead of a bunch of free-flowing sentences. I'm not able to find fonts in this book because I can't pinpoint a single letter.
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