February 24, 2010
One of the great pleasures of being a book designer is getting to work on books by my friends. There’s a unique form of collaboration that happens when I work with someone I know well, and the book usually shows the result of this process. In 1999 I had the pleasure of helping my friend [...]
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February 19, 2010
The typefaces we use for books are a real contradiction. They can be so quiet you just don’t notice them. But if you enlarge the letters, you can see right away that they are full of idiosyncrasies and flourishes. Display typefaces, on the other hand, announce themselves to the reader in no uncertain terms. In [...]
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