Type Offenders

£7.99

Type Offenders

How Fonts Shaped Power, Politics, and the Price of Mistakes

Graphic design

Author: Mia Harrington

Dinosaur mascot

Language: English

Published by: epubli

Published on: 3rd November 2025

Format: LCP-protected ePub

ISBN: 9783565076413


Every letter has a past—and sometimes, a criminal record.

Type Offenders uncovers the wild, surprising, and often disastrous stories behind the world's most powerful typefaces: the fonts that started lawsuits, changed elections, crashed systems, and even saved lives.

From the misprinted ballots of Florida's 2000 election to billion-dollar software bugs caused by invisible characters, typography has never been as innocent as it looks.

Type Offenders blends design history, politics, and technology into a sharp, fast-paced narrative that reveals how the shapes of our letters have quietly shaped the course of civilization.

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