Author: Simon Garfield

Comic Sans is one of the most used and most reviled typefaces of the digital age. How was it made? How could it spawn a movement to ban it and yet ...

The classic elegant English typeface, still widely used as a book text more than 250 years since its creation. Baskerville is a transitional design...

One of the most beautiful handcrafted typefaces in the world, Albertus is also one of the most enduring. The face of thousands of book jackets, and...

'Witty and geekily eclectic' The TimesAn erudite and amusing exploration' Financial Times'Full of jawdropping facts' Mail on Sunday'Remarkable . . ...

A delightful, entertaining and illuminating investigation into our peculiar fascination with making things small, and what small things tell us abo...

1856. Eighteen-year-old chemistry student William Perkin's experiment has gone horribly wrong. But the deep brown sludge his botched project has pr...

Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana. The Beatles learn to be brilliant in an hour and a half. An Englishman arrives back from C...

Every letter contains a miniature story, and here are some of the greatest. From Oscar Wilde's unconventional method of using the mail to cycling e...

In Miniature is a delightful, entertaining and illuminating investigation into our peculiar fascination with making things small, and what small th...