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Subtraction: One Book to Specify Them All

July 26th, 2007 by Steve Ivy

font-book

It’s billed as “the largest typeface reference in the word,” and just a single flip through its 1,500 pages leaves one with no reason to doubt that claim.

One Book to Specify Them All.

Ahhhh, I would love to curl up with this book for a few weeks.

[via daring fireball]

machine tags: blog:via=http://daringfireball.net/linked/2007/july#thu-26-fontbook, book:isbn=3930023024

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4 Responses to “Subtraction: One Book to Specify Them All”

  1. Nancy Ivy (July 27th, 2007 at 5:51 am )

    Start saving your pennies!
    and nickles, dimes, quarters, half-dollars, dollars…..

  2. monkinetic | Blog Archive » Machine Tags (July 27th, 2007 at 10:17 am )

    [...] freed me to implement my machine tags separately from the normal post tags, as you can now see on this post about the FontBook. In this case I created a WordPress custom field for them. I may continue to tweak the presentation [...]

  3. monkinetic | Blog Archive » Using blog:via (July 30th, 2007 at 10:03 am )

    [...] But searching for all posts with ‘blog:via’ is not that interesting. If you check out this post page, I’ve tweaked the machine tags display so that next to each “blog:via” is a [...]

  4. monkinetic | Blog Archive » Implementing Machine Tagging (August 7th, 2007 at 9:27 am )

    [...] books at Amazon (book:isbn) and other Amazon products (amazon:asin). Here’s a post with a blog:via tag and a book:isbn tag. And here’s one with a netflix:id tag and an amazon:asin [...]

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