Football Type 2
£40.00
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- Football Type 2 celebrates the beautiful typography of the beautiful game
- Rick Banks returns with a sequel to his popular 2013 book, exploring the wealth of type design on football kits throughout history
- The book starts with the era between 1920–1960 looking at the early years of shirt numbers as purely practical elements, then moves on to the 70s, when brands and clubs first began to really consider the aesthetics and personality of kit lettering. In glorious detail, it explores each decade thereafter and the eclectic visual archive of football type design around the world, with large-scale imagery of the letterforms and plenty of nostalgic photography of the kits in use on the pitch. Banks and Hurley examine themes and trends throughout the years, and where clubs and brands have tweaked existing fonts or commissioned bespoke ones to channel their team’s identity through type
- There are also informative case studies on memorable moments of the genre, such as the official Premier League typeface introduced in 2007, designed by Sporting iD, and the La Liga uniform font created in 2017; the Umbro font banned for lack of legibility; and the Bruno Maag typeface for Tottenham Hotspur that helped create a market-leading brand
