The Appellate Record Blog: Good Books About Small Things

The ability to buy books online means that I am easily parted from my money. 

 It is a regular occurrence in the office that a package with a smiley face will arrive of an afternoon, and my purchases are so frequent and impulsive that I often cannot anticipate what is inside.

This past week I tweeted about the arrival of this little gem, "Just My Type: A Book About Fonts" by Simon Garfield.

It is about so much more than fonts, as I soon discovered when I spent the first half of the high school football game last Friday with my nose buried in its pages.

Yeah, I can only nominally be called a Texan given my lack of devotion to Friday Night Lights.

The book is an entertaining history of how we got from texts handwritten by scribes, to moveable type that endeavored to look like handwriting, to mechanical type that was designed for clear communication, to digital typefaces.