Matthew Woolman’s entertaining book “A Type Detective Story”, published in 1997, is part crime thriller, part typographical tutorial.
The typographic world has fallen into complete digitial anarchy. Gone are the humans — those creators of the alphabetic monsters that now roam free. Letterform violence and character assassination have infested this once clean and legible land of the printed word. Every turn of a page reveals yet another ink-spotted trail of typographic carnage…