From ASCII art to Comic Sans : typography and popular culture in the digital age

From ASCII art to Comic Sans typography and popular culture in the digital age

"Through a close examination of the material and visual culture found online, Wagner offers a contextualizing historiography that takes the reader from the art of ASCII to hatred of Comic Sans. By combining design history, visual, and material culture, this book offers a new glimpse into the ro...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Wagner, Karin, 1959- author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press [2023]
Edición:1st ed
Materias:
Type and type-founding > History.
Graphic design (Typography) > History.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009863829906719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Computer Pictures before Computer Graphics: The Practice of ASCII Art
  • 3 Domesticated Aliens: Machine-Readable Typefaces in Popular Culture and Beyond
  • 4 The Multisensory Dot Matrix Printer
  • 5 Type Hate and the Discourse of Comic Sans
  • 6 Common Themes and Concluding Remarks
  • Notes
  • Index.

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