Books by Robert Norton (editor)
Types Best Remembered/Types Best Forgotten
by Robert Norton (editor)
This is another really quirky book, published originally in America, where this guy called Robert Norton badgered all his friends into sending him anecdotes about types they love and types they loathe, so it’s a truly subjective thing. Now everyone would pick Comic Sans – traditionally known as the most loathed typeface in the world, and used all over the place in the wrong way.
Interviews where books by Robert Norton (editor) were recommended
The best books on Typefaces, recommended by Simon Garfield
It used to be said that you could be parachuted into any country and know where you were from the typeface used on its road signs. The author of Just My Type tells us about the variety and meaning of different fonts.