Luna’s Café

Paul Luna’s book, Typography: A Very Short Introduction, is published by Oxford University Press

Typography: A Very Short Introduction

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We can never read the words in a book or on a web page without being influenced by their design. Typography, the visual design of written la...

1988: David Hillman redesigns The Guardian

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As The Guardian changes from Berliner to tabloid format, here are some photographs I took of David Hillman and Michael McNay at the Guardia...

The typography of the Compact OED

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The OED Compact Edition was printed from exactly the same typeset output as the OED Second Edition, photographically reduced. For the Secon...

The Economist – getting better

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Following near-universal criticism, The Economist has relented and improved the typography of its iPad app. The screen grab shows the small...

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This had never occurred to me (despite passing my Intertype composition test as a student). The matrices in the magazine on a Linotype machi...
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