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Day: January 4, 2007

Picking the font: A case study

January 4, 2007 India9 Comments

Having just gotten back from the weeklong holiday and totally forgotten how to do my job, while blathering about choosing text faces the other day I omitted two very obvious considerations:

  1. What kind of type is used in similar books?

  2. What typefaces are used on the book cover or jacket?

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