Type Style Finder: The Busy Designer's Guide to Type

By Timothy Samara

How do you decide on the right typeface for your audience? This book is the complete reference to finding the perfect typeface for any project. Organised by style, makes this the easiest and most... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1592531903
• ISBN13: 9781592531905
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Rockport Publishers
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Awesome starting point

I can't tell you how many times I've found myself stuck trying to find that elusive "perfect font" and have gone back to this book and found what I was looking for nearly immediately. The author's method of breaking down the type styles by sections is genius and simple, and makes it easy for the reader to find exactly what they're looking for quickly. This little book has saved me countless hours! Would definitely recommend this book to all artists dealing with text!

Worth a graphic designer's time

It's very easy to find a font for any given project with this guide. It is organized by theme and emotional content . . . looking for a fun font or a kids font or a fantasy font? There are several recommendations for each section. My only complaint about this book is that I would like to see each section expanded with further suggestions. If you find a theme that works for you then, most likely, you will only find 2-3 pages of suggested fonts. It's a great concept for a book. Hopefully, the author will release additional editions at some later date.

Type Style Finder: The Busy Designer's Guide to Type

A fine collection of examples of combinations of types, styles and colors for all graphic designers.

Fun resource to have

While books of this type can lose their freshness after awhile (as fonts come and go out of fashion and as new faces are created), this is a novel and fun way to see what fonts convey the attitude/atmosphere you want to create. Mr. Samara's book lists various styles such as business, gothic, humorous, etc. and shows samples comprising several pages of current typefaces for each desired effect. It's set up as a typeface catalog under the various descriptive headings. As a designer I appreciate having a collection like this at my fingertips, and highly recommend this to anyone who works with fonts and typography. It stays on my desktop - it never finds the bookshelf!

essential

this book will stay very close to your desk. great time-saver, great source of inspiration.