Where do letters come from? From the first stroke to the finished font. A comprehensive course on typography for beginners

The letters surround us everywhere - in books, films, thesis, on posters of your favorite groups, subway signs, messenger chats. But did you think where they come from, how do they come up with fonts and why so often we deprive the letter Yo? This book will answer these and other questions!

Together with the artist Anya Lyubimova, you will go on a fascinating journey around the city of letters. You are waiting for fascinating tasks to create your own font, interesting facts about the evolution of letters, as well as the rules and laws of typography told in simple words.

This book will teach to understand such confusing terms as the “grapheme "and“ serif ”, distinguish antiques and grotesque, understand the principles of the formation of font families and will help to take the first steps in the typographic.

Anya Lyubimova - Inv -artist, illustrator. The winner of the international competition "Image of the book" 2020 in the non-Fixhen section for the author’s project according to typography. Participant of the laboratory of contemporary art and