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From ASCII Art to Comic Sans: Typography and Popular Culture in the Digital Age

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dc.creatorWagner, Karin
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-13T20:03:13Z
dc.date.available2024-05-13T20:03:13Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractFrom 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. 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. 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.en
dc.identifier.doi10.7551/mitpress/14624.001.0001
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/22062
dc.identifier.isbnisbn:978026237520
dc.identifier.urihttps://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262546140/from-ascii-art-to-comic-sans/
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/23421
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherThe MIT Press
dc.publisher.placeCambridge
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectTypographyen
dc.subjectDigital Ageen
dc.subjectHistoryen
dc.subject.ddcddc:300
dc.titleFrom ASCII Art to Comic Sans: Typography and Popular Culture in the Digital Agede
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dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
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local.coverpage2024-05-15T02:36:32
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262546140/from-ascii-art-to-comic-sans/

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