Carolyn Porter
Auteur de Marcel's Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man's Fate
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Partage des connaissances
- Sexe
- female
Membres
Critiques
Prix et récompenses
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 5
- Membres
- 111
- Popularité
- #175,484
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 9
Porter admits that her inexperience in font design resulted in inefficient processes. The same thing is evident in her research into Marcel and his descendants. After several months of mostly unsuccessful attempts to find Marcel on the internet, she eventually connected with a genealogist who was able to use the information that Porter had gleaned to find Marcel’s family within a week or so. However, Porter’s time and efforts weren’t wasted. She connected with several people along the way who provided useful information and suggestions for further research, and many of these individuals became as invested as Porter was in locating Marcel and learning his fate.
Porter’s methods may have been slow, but they were thorough. Her analysis and description of the physical letters particularly impressed me. I read this book for its genealogical angle, and the typography content was an added bonus since it’s a field I need to learn about for work-related reasons.… (plus d'informations)