For Pizar - who will appreciate :)

May 16, 2008 10:53

 final page before the "readers guide" in Shoot the Moon, by Billie Letts.

A NOTE ABOUT THE TYPE

This book was set in Garamond 3, a typeface based on the Garamond font family created by type designer Claude Garamond (1490-1561), one of the master type founders and cutters of the sixteenth century. The Garamond fonts remained vastly used and very ( Read more... )

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pixeldrift May 16 2008, 18:30:28 UTC
:D Awesome. That's way more detail than they usually give. I like the mini history lesson on typography.

BTW, it's called a colophon. "It contains factual information about the book, especially about its production, and includes details about typographic style, the fonts used, the paper used, and perhaps the binding method of the book."

We loves us the colophon.

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