Description: From ASCII Art to Comic Sans : Typography and Popular Culture in the Age, Paperback by Wagner, Karin, ISBN 0262546140, ISBN-13 9780262546140, Brand New, Free shipping in the US A fresh and provocative take on typography, computing, and popular culture, viewed through four idiosyncratic typographical phenomena from the age. From ASCII Art to Comic Sans offers an original vision of the history of typography and computing in the age, viewed through the lens of offbeat typography. We often regard text as pure information and typography as a transparent art form without meaning of its own. In this richly illustrated book, however, Karin Wagner offers a fresh perspective that shows how text is always an image that conveys meaning, and how typography, far from being meaningless, has in fact shaped modern visual and material culture in significant ways. By juxtaposing four odd typographical phenomena—the pedantic practice of ASCII art, the curious-looking machine-readable typefaces, the blurry letters of dot matrix printers, and the much-maligned font Comic Sans—Wagner paints a vivid picture of how functional technologies influence popular culture when used in ways their original creators never intended. Design practitioners, as well as fans of media, graphic design, type history, and computer technology, will enjoy this breezily sophisticated perspective on visual and culture. Spanning the material and visual aspects of typography from the 1960s to the present, From ASCII Art to Comic Sans is a unique contribution to the study of popular and material culture that fills a gap in the history of typography and computing.
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Book Title: From ASCII Art to Comic Sans : Typography and Popular Culture in
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Name: From ASCII Art to Comic Sans : Typography and Popular Culture in the Digital Age
Language: English
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication Year: 2023
Subject: Communication Studies, Popular Culture, Graphic Arts / Typography
Item Height: 0.5 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 14.8 Oz
Item Length: 8.9 in
Subject Area: Design, Art, Social Science, Language Arts & Disciplines
Author: Karin Wagner
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
