Typographica on Nostr: I missed it in my initial flipthrough here, but I also admire the book’s manifesto ...
I missed it in my initial flipthrough here, but I also admire the book’s manifesto which invites readers to rethink the term “font” – transforming it from its (mostly colonial) origins into a way to describe reproducible lettering models. Thus the word “foundry” in this books’ title. As someone who sticks with traditional definitions of type terms, I appreciated the authors’ imagination.
The design of the book is delightfully daring too, set in Bradley (
https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/15425/bradley).
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