{"id":1464,"date":"2009-08-12T20:14:01","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T03:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=1464"},"modified":"2011-07-27T13:13:50","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T20:13:50","slug":"fonts-the-secret-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/1464","title":{"rendered":"Fonts: The Secret History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1845110285?tag=stevemehallo-20&#038;camp=213381&#038;creative=390973&#038;linkCode=as4&#038;creativeASIN=1845110285&#038;adid=0A4Y0TJ99BJV95TCKTQ2&#038;\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/BLOGimages\/SECREThistory.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Behind every well-made font is, typically, an obsessive individual who is out to make the world a beautiful place. And individuals, <em>human beings<\/em>, can be rather screwy. And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1845110285?tag=stevemehallo-20&#038;camp=213381&#038;creative=390973&#038;linkCode=as4&#038;creativeASIN=1845110285&#038;adid=0A4Y0TJ99BJV95TCKTQ2&#038;\" target=\"_blank\">here&#8217;s a book (now in paperback) about all the screwiness.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Simon Loxley&#8217;s <em>Type: The Secret History of Letters<\/em> blows the lid off of William Caslon&#8217;s wicked right cross; Stanley Morison and the Wardes; Frederic Goudy&#8217;s tarnished shining star, M.F.Benton&#8217;s ulcers and what really happened with John Baskerville&#8217;s dead body. And Eric Gill, religious sex junkie. Don&#8217;t even know where to start with that.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t think type is anything more than what&#8217;s on the font menu, stay away from this book. Because it&#8217;ll drag you into a world of intrigue, ego and dalliances with God and dog. <\/p>\n<p>(Okay, that was a good sentence, but truth be told, the dog stuff isn&#8217;t in this book. You&#8217;ll need other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/artanddesign\/2006\/jul\/22\/art.art\" target=\"_blank\">sources<\/a> for that)<\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"Fonts: The Secret History\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/1464\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behind every well-made font is, typically, an obsessive individual who is out to make the world a beautiful place. And individuals, human beings, can be rather screwy. And here&#8217;s a book (now in paperback) about all the screwiness. Simon Loxley&#8217;s Type: The Secret History of Letters blows the lid off of William Caslon&#8217;s wicked right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,50,54,49,127,53,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finds","category-design","category-design-history","category-education","category-fonts","category-thoughts","category-typography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1464"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28674,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions\/28674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}