Building Ligatures - The Power of Type

by Linda Kudrnovská (Editor)

The 248-page book presents a well-balanced mix of know-how texts written by TypeTogether’s core team and essays by some of the most respected and influential design writers and experts in the typographic industry. Featured contributors include Fiona Ross, Catherine Dixon, Gerry Leonidas, Veronika Burian, and José Scaglione, among others. Selected essays reflect not only on philosophical and ethical considerations, but also on practical and technological aspects of typographic life. Discussions range from font quality, digital typesetting, matchmaking and licensing, multiscript typography, and history of type design, to more fundamental questions, such as whether the world still needs new typefaces. The texts are accompanied by a series of photographs documenting the life of the foundry from its beginnings to the present day, and a selection of typefaces published by TypeTogether which are paired with their brief impressions by acclaimed theoreticians and font users.

248 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2022

Reviews

[Reese Derksen · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is packed with quality knowledge, fantastic perspectives, intelligent articles, and touches on specifics such as anatomy breakdowns for Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Thai, Devanagari, and Arabic characters. It also briefly dissects localization of quotation marks, letterforms, commas and periods—which I haven’t found an equivalent that discusses it as straightforward as here.

TypeTogether are very clearly the example to follow when it comes to multi-script type design and this publication does the entire family of designers and fonts justice.