From ASCII art to comic sans: typography and popular culture in the digital age (Record no. 61500)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780262546140 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 744.47 WAG |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Wagner, Karin |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | From ASCII art to comic sans: typography and popular culture in the digital age |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | Cambridge, Massachusetts: |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | The MIT Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2023. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | viii, 248P.: |
| Other physical details | col. ill.; pbk.: |
| Dimensions | 23 cm. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc | Includes Bibliographical References and Index |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | A fresh and provocative take on typography, computing, and popular culture, viewed through four idiosyncratic typographical phenomena from the digital age.<br/><br/>From ASCII Art to Comic Sans offers an original vision of the history of typography and computing in the digital age, viewed through the lens of offbeat typography. We often regard text as pure information and typography as a transparent art form without meaning of its own. In this richly illustrated book, however, Karin Wagner offers a fresh perspective that shows how text is always an image that conveys meaning, and how typography, far from being meaningless, has in fact shaped modern visual and material culture in significant ways.<br/><br/>By juxtaposing four odd typographical phenomena—the pedantic practice of ASCII art, the curious-looking machine-readable typefaces, the blurry letters of dot matrix printers, and the much-maligned font Comic Sans—Wagner paints a vivid picture of how functional technologies influence popular culture when used in ways their original creators never intended.<br/><br/>Design practitioners, as well as fans of media, graphic design, type history, and computer technology, will enjoy this breezily sophisticated perspective on visual and digital culture. Spanning the material and visual aspects of typography from the 1960s to the present, From ASCII Art to Comic Sans is a unique contribution to the study of popular and material culture that fills a gap in the history of typography and computing.<br/><br/>https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262546140/from-ascii-art-to-comic-sans/ |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Design & Related Arts |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Communication Design |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Typography |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Visual Design |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Graphic Design |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | ASCII Art to Comic Sans |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Culture- Digital Age |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | General | IIT Gandhinagar | IIT Gandhinagar | 07/02/2025 | Himanshu Books | 3400.00 | 744.47 WAG | 035116 | 07/02/2025 | 1 | 3400.00 | Books |
