![]() ![]() You clearly can and all you need is a book of cover jackets to prove it.” “The cliché that you can’t judge a book by its cover is wrong. Each of the letters comes with a description by whoever chose them. They’d look great on the side of a boiler and you can read them even going past at speed. In my book I describe them as letters you’d imagine seeing on the side of Victorian trains rushing past you with steam billowing out. They’re known generically as a ‘fat face’ because they are large, bold letters. This Egyptian Bold Extra Extended A is something that comes from the 19th century and you see it on Victorian music hall posters, and it’s also a popular letter in early American wood type. If you get type designers on a project like this, the risk is that they’re all going to go for the most obscure thing they can find and they’ll try to out-something each other and be as elitist as they can, but that’s not the case here. They don’t all have long wacky obscure names. He’s picked the Egyptian Bold Extra Extended A. ![]() My favourite A is actually the first one in the book, picked by David Quay, who I don’t know at all. It begins with five As, two Cs, five Gs and so on. It’s a small format book and without any question it’s my favourite typeface book. Every month they asked a type designer or someone involved in the graphic arts to pick a letter in any font and describe why they like it. It’s a collection devoted to a love of letters. Foreign Policy & International Relationsīy published by Grafik Magazine & various contributors Read. ![]()
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