Exploring The Woes And Wonders Of Type
Seth Stevenson reviews Stephen Coles‘ “The Anatomy of Type,” which provides a close look at the design and background of 100 different typefaces. For Stevenson, the book “provides a glorious opportunity to taxonimize another everyday visual encounter.” He claims that now, as he peruses “the text of subway ads and pasted-up flyers,” that he delights, “in assessing their glyph widths, their stroke weights, their ascender heights.” Meanwhile, the image of the Lenox Lounge comes from James and Karla Murray’s “New York Nights,” a book Maria Popova calls “a striking, lavish street-level tour of New York City’s typographic neon mesmerism, revealed through the illuminated storefronts of some of the city’s most revered bars, diners, speakeasies, theaters, and other epicenters of public life.”
