Give it it's very own moment every chance you get and let it shine.ģ. Place the logo, preferably left aligned or center aligned with adequate and equal spacing around it. It is often a reflection of what you do, your ideals and principles. If it is getting pushed and pulled and squeezed while fighting with the text all at the same time, the purpose of the entire exercise is lost. The Logo (if available) is sacred: Your logo (along with your message) is how people recognize your business/service.
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Khoi Vinh of Subtraction interviews Stephen Coles of FontShop.įontBook on FontShop, with PDF sample pages.2. The winner will receive a copy of typography today by Helmut Schmid. One correct entry will be randomly selected and announced on this week’s Sunday Type. Coming up…Īnd there’s a prize if you can tell me which three types I used in the header “i” (1) “love” (2) “typography” (3). Anyway, let’s hope I’m put in charge of the prison library. I guess it’s only then that I will appreciate the fact that FontBook weighs 3kg. If you don’t hear from me for a while, then it’s because Mafia Maurice and Billy the Bruiser won’t let me use the ‘Internet’ in Cell Block H–until I perform favours of a wholly type-unrelated nature. However, if you’re caught, then whatever you do, don’t mention this article and pray that Erik Spiekermann is on the jury. This book is probably worth robbing a bank for (non-violently, of course). The FontBook is to type what the chocolate house is to chocoholics. I suggest instead that it is simply the product of a passion for type, published not so much with pecuniary gain in mind, but simply because its authors love type.
However, when one considers the time that has gone into producing this tome, and the costs of production, I doubt that FontBook is much of a cash cow. It may well sell more fonts–FontShop is not the Samaritans. The cynics among us (and I can be one too), may argue that FontBook is a marketing tool aimed at selling more fonts. An in relative terms FontBook is cheaper than 20 McDonald’s Value Meals. In absolute terms, $99 is not cheap, but then this is no throw-away paperback novel it’s a 1,760-page, 3kg encyclopaedia. After, consuming some 20 courses, four bottles of vintage red and six crates of beer, the Maître D, played by John Cleese, recommends “And finally, monsieur, a wafer-thin mint.” Type gluttons among you will simply not be able to resist just one more wafer-thin page. There really should be no studio without this in its library.Īfter spending an hour or so flicking through its pages, Monty Python’s exploding glutton, Mr Creosote came to mind. Anyway, it’s the cross-references that do it for me, making FontBook an invaluable tool for just about anyone who uses type. In fact I’d love to see this further developed, so that for example, I’m looking for a good sans serif accompaniment to Swift, and there’s a cross-reference that points me to one. I can go to the Serif section–where all the types are arranged alphabetically,…p, q, r, s,… Swift! The cross reference in the inside margin displays an eye icon (denoting similar types) and listed are ITC Charter (b), Demos, Hollander and Bitsream Oranda. For example, I’m looking for something similar to one of my favourite types, Gerard Unger’s Swift (a). My favourite feature of the book–and this must have taken ages to prepare–is the ample cross references. The types are organised into eight main groups: Sans, Serif, Slab, Script, Display, Blackletter, Symbols, and Non-Latin. I took the FontBook to my local café, where I often work in the evenings, and complete strangers approached me (unusual in Japan) several people remarked ‘ookii hon desu ne!’ (big book, isn’t it!), while others simply asked what the book was about.īeyond the trademark FontShop yellow covers, the content is prefaced by a ‘how to use this book’ section in both English and German however, to be frank, you could be a Martian and/or only speak Zangalulob and still find your way around the book without any problems.
However, with some 32,000 type samples, 1,760 pages, and 100,000 footnotes and cross-references, I don’t think FontShop will be publishing a pocket version any time soon. This book really should come with a health warning: my postman almost had a hernia delivering it, and very nearly sprained his wrist attempting to hold it in one hand as he passed me the delivery receipt with the other. No, not a genetically modified banana, but FontShop’s FontBook, an the encyclopaedia of type. Recently I received through the post something large, yellow and weighing 3kg.
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