# The Typographic Universe

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- Authors: [Steven Heller](https://www.bookquiver.com/steven-heller), [Gail Anderson](https://www.bookquiver.com/gail-anderson)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2014-08-04

## Description

Virtually anything can be used to make original typography and once you start looking, it is impossible not to see letters everywhere, from deliberate inventions – aromatic alphabets made of spaghetti, soup or spices, or contorted typefaces styled out of human handprints – to serendipitous and often short-lived discoveries – letters formed by chemtrails in the sky, negative spaces between trees branches and city buildings, cracks in plaster – to fading ‘ghost types’ painted on buildings in a pre-digital age.

## Editions

### The Typographic Universe

- Publisher: thames_and_hudson
- ISBN: 978-05-0024-145-5
- Pages: 352
- Published: 2014-08-04
- Language: en_GB