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

Description: From ASCII Art to Comic Sans by Karin Wagner "Through a close examination of the material and visual culture found online, Wagner offers a contextualizing historiography that takes the reader from the art of ASCII to hatred of Comic Sans. By combining design history, visual, and material culture, this book offers a new glimpse into the role of letter form and typographical structure in the history of digital culture"-- FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A fresh and provocative take on typography, computing, and popular culture, viewed through four idiosyncratic typographical phenomena from the digital age.A fresh and provocative take on typography, computing, and popular culture, viewed through four idiosyncratic typographical phenomena from the digital age.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.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. Author Biography Karin Wagner is Professor in Art History and Visual Studies in the Department of Cultural Sciences at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Researching photography, digital culture, design, and visual communication, she has published articles in Journal of Aesthetics & Culture, Visual Communication, Museum & Society, and Archival Science. Table of Contents Acknowledgments vii1 Introduction 12 Computer Pictures Before Computer Graphics: The Practice of ASCII Art 273 Domesticated Aliens: Machine-Readable Typefaces in Popular Culture and Beyond 754 The Multisensory Dot Matrix Printer 1175 Type Hate and the Discourse of Comic Sans 1616 Common Themes and Concluding Remarks 199Notes 209Index 243 Details ISBN0262546140 Author Karin Wagner Short Title From ASCII Art to Comic Sans Language English Year 2023 ISBN-10 0262546140 ISBN-13 9780262546140 Format Paperback Publication Date 2023-09-19 Subtitle Typography and Popular Culture in the Digital Age Publisher MIT Press Ltd Imprint MIT Press Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2023-09-19 NZ Release Date 2023-09-19 US Release Date 2023-09-19 UK Release Date 2023-09-19 Pages 232 Illustrations 83 Color Illus. DEWEY 744.47 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:145039437;

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