The Ten Commandments of Typography / Type Heresy: Breaking the Ten Commandments of Typography

by Paul Felton, Jonathan Barnbrook

A humorous and incisive analysis of the basic tenets of typography and how to turn them on their heads, this book will appeal to the conformist and the non-conformist in everyone - not just the newcomer to design."

Genres: Design, Nonfiction, Reference

72 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Elon · Rating 1 out of 5]

I just wanted a book on type and here I got a book by men celebrating - you guessed it - only other men. It's not clever or rebellious as it claims and left me feeling disappointed. But maybe a bit inspired to do this better.

[Ishqha K. · Rating 2 out of 5]

A real quick read and its true to it’s name - commandments. Witty. That’s all.

Not even worth as a refresher.

[H James · Rating 1 out of 5]

The manifesto aspects are thoroughly unconvincing, and the double‐sided book gimmick is interesting for about 90 seconds.

[Sagarika Choudhury · Rating 2 out of 5]

Very very VERY quick read.

[Davide Genco · Rating 2 out of 5]

Sono stato adescato dalla formula double face della copertina, comunicativamente piuttosto convincente, aspettandomi dal contenuto interno lo stesso tono minimal e brillante.
In realtà l'ho trovato piuttosto pedissequo, più scarno che sintetico, mentre l'idea dei dieci comandamenti non è stata del tutto sfruttata come potenzialità sia grafica che espositiva, proponendo delle case history di applicazione delle font piuttosto deboli. Soprattutto nella parte "infernale" mi sarei aspettato delle soluzioni formalmente più convincenti, perchè solo la loro dirompenza avrebbe davvero dimostrato la necessità di rompere le regole.
Oltre al "packaging", salvo soltanto una semplice frase estrapolata da un'intervista di prefazione a Matthew Carter, che probabilmente ri-citerò a mia volta all'occasione buona: "The advantage o frules is that they can prevent mistakes; the disadvantage is that tehey can prevent discoveries".

[Wes Wong · Rating 1 out of 5]

For some reason I thought this was going to be an essay based book, but it turned out to be heavy on the typographic illustrations. The actual content was minimal, and it was one of those "heard it all before" type of books. It was interesting enough for me to keep reading though it, but I was done in 10 min.

[Ellen · Rating 4 out of 5]

This smart little book demonstrates that every rule was made to be broken. And if you are going to break it, doing it in a good font.

[Heather · Rating 4 out of 5]

A beautifully made book.

[Sathyan Velumani · Rating 4 out of 5]

great quick read in typography basics