Karin Wagner

From ASCII Art to Comic Sans

Typography and Popular Culture in the Digital Age

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"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"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 416g
• ISBN-13: 9780262546140
• ISBN-10: 0262546140
• Artikelnr.: 68031426

Autorenporträt

Karin Wagner

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
1 Introduction 1
2 Computer Pictures Before Computer Graphics: The Practice of ASCII Art 27
3 Domesticated Aliens: Machine-Readable Typefaces in Popular Culture and
Beyond 75
4 The Multisensory Dot Matrix Printer 117
5 Type Hate and the Discourse of Comic Sans 161
6 Common Themes and Concluding Remarks 199
Notes 209
Index 243