A to M's Blog » typography http://www.a-to-m.com/leftarm Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:46:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 The Zen of ePublishing http://www.a-to-m.com/leftarm/the-zen-of-epublishing/ http://www.a-to-m.com/leftarm/the-zen-of-epublishing/#comments Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:05:13 +0000 Mike http://www.a-to-m.com/leftarm/?p=120

After reading an article from A List Apart on web standards for E-books I decided to have a pop at a couple of styles for the newly formed ePub Zen Garden created by Threepress. The ePub format is a standard for publishing books for screens and the Zen Garden is designed to showcase the flexibility of the format. The most successful submission of mine seems to be Seneca, based loosely on the design by Phil Baines for the Penguin series of Great Ideas (I recently finished Seneca’s Shortness of Life). The other styles I submitted are Carter and Jost (references to the typographers Matthew Carter and Jost Hochuli respectively).

]]> http://www.a-to-m.com/leftarm/the-zen-of-epublishing/feed/ 3 A Book of Scripts : Alfred Fairbank / Jan Tschichold http://www.a-to-m.com/leftarm/a-book-of-scripts-alfred-fairbank-jan-tschichold/ http://www.a-to-m.com/leftarm/a-book-of-scripts-alfred-fairbank-jan-tschichold/#comments Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:15:38 +0000 Mike http://www.a-to-m.com/leftarm/?p=7

A Book of Scripts by Alfred Farbank, cover by Jan Tschichold for King Penguin, 1949. The cover was adapted by Tschichold from a design by Juan de Vciar, 1547.

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