Review of 'What the Font?! - a Manga Guide to Western Typeface' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
I really wanted to like this more than I did. I did learn quite a bit about the history of several Western fonts and how they differ from one another. But the personalities of each font-as-a-character just didn't shine through. The comic was also structured like a yonkoma four-panel gag strip but there were never any gags. Whether that was due to translation or just the content of the comic, the final panels almost always fell flat.
Interesting if you want to learn about font in a more entertaining format than a textbook, but kind of a mess as a comic itself.
