Ligatures

If i had a ligature, I'd ligature in the morning, I'd ligature in the evening -all over this blog.

Good Typography

I'm a big Marcel Proust fan, and although all my copies of his work have great designs (especially the Penguin Deluxe Classics!; check out the American designs by Kelly Blair) I really love this box set from Vintage. Shown above is the side of the slip cover where you can see the beautiful typeface and some of the art nouveau designs decorating each volume. Below is a close-up of Volume three showing in more detail some of the type. Although the organization of type on these books is nothing special (everything is centered and that's about it), I think the type itself goes perfectly with the ornate black and white decorations that surround it. In addition, I feel it's just the beauty of the typeface itself that does all the work.

These pictures were taken this evening in my room.

Hand-Rendered Typography

I'm home for the weekend and I found some "hand-rendered" typography hanging on our fridge: this is a post card my friend Luke sent our family while he was studying abroad in Rome this past semester. The type is designed to look like handwriting (if it wasn't handwriting to begin with), given the cursive nature of the word "David" in addition to the two W's in "WOW" not being identical. I don't like the type design, but everyone seems to like the card anyway.