What you will learn at CalRBS History of Type in August 2022—no. 18

I will be teaching the history of type at California Rare Book School (CalRBS) August 8–12, 2022. The 5-day intensive class will be based at the Letterform Archive in San Francisco. Along with lectures, discussions, and hands-on examination of typographic artifacts and materials at the Archive there will be field trips to other Bay Area institutions to look at books, broadsides, and more. The class will be small (7 to 12 people).

Here are 10 things you will learn in the class:
1. why people hate Trajan
2. why people hate Comic Sans
3. why people hate Arial
4. why people hate ITC Souvenir
5. why people hate Papyrus
6. why people hate Optima
7. why people hate Helvetica
8. why people hate Palatino
9. why people hate Times Roman
10. why people hate Adobe Garamond