From ASCII art to comic sans : typography and popular culture in the digital age

Author(s)

• Wagner, Karin

Bibliographic Information

From ASCII art to comic sans : typography and popular culture in the digital age

Karin Wagner

The MIT Press, c2023

• : pbk

Note

Also available online (Open Access). URL: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5649

"This work is subject to a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND license."--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-241) and index

Summary:"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 role of letter form and typographical structure in the history of digital culture"-- Provided by publisher

Details

• NCID: BD0554700X
• ISBN:
  • 9780262546140
• LCCN: 2022048751
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 248 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : Z250.A2
  • DC23 : 744.4/7
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Type and type-founding -- History
  • LCSH : Graphic design (Typography) -- History