The description promised a lot of useful information about fonts for those who know little about the subject. The topic is generally very interesting to me, and the book is colorful—so I bought into. However, it turns out that the book is practically about nothing. It’s not even a book, but rather a collection of loosely connected thoughts, heavily sprinkled with images and tons of font names and highly professional terminology. After a while, you start to realize you no longer understand what’s being described. Even the design of the book, in my opinion as a reader, was quite inconvenient, despite the author constantly emphasizing the importance of choosing fonts and design for readability. Ironically, the book itself doesn’t excel in this regard. But the main problem for me is that it’s unclear who the book is for and what goal the author was trying to achieve. Simply put, the book feels like it’s about nothing. I don’t understand where all the praise is coming from.
My rating: 1/5
