Work
Type design
Letters as objects with a job: to be read, at a size, by a particular kind of eye.
It sits with letterpress, editorial design, and the history of how pages learned to look.
Type designers argue about a curve for a week. The reader should feel only ease.
On an Interest Map, the line we most often letter beside type design reads “a curve argued over so reading feels easy.” It tends to meet letterpress, product design, and literature.
Work that shares the table
A book that keeps it company
Career Counseling, Mark L. Savickas. Read it beside type design: A method for hearing the plot already running under a person’s jobs.