A Scandinavian typographic designer. I give form to books, publications and explore beautiful type, printing &cetera. ❦
Stockholm, Sverige
Joined January 2021
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I've written a short text on the typeface Garamond on my blog: typographicnorth.com/garamon… #Garamond #typeface #typography
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Wikipedia: Line length is too wide, and I'd like to see in it Roman type.
Substack: Too airy, the words almost evaporate.
#type #typography #readability #substack #Wikipedia #romantype #seriftype
«Book design» seems to mean «cover design» these days – if I am to judge by various search results. This supports my view of typography as an invisible art.
I believe I can give the art a bit more visibility here and there. It is, after all, important. #typography #bookdesign
In the beginning was the word.
In the the end was a .
A full stop. A period. A small dot, creating rhythm, room to breathe, aiding interpretation.
Is is one of the most used glyphs in use today?
#type #typography #punctuation #fullstop #glyph
In my work, I almost always choose typefaces with serifs rather than "modern" sans serifs. As a result, I find the text to be more alive, vibrant, humanistic, more approachable. This is often in contrast to a sterile, industrial text block that is devoid of life and emotion.
I'm slowly learning GREP styles in Indesign, and it's making my workflows better. #adobe #indesign #bookdesign #typography #GREP
I’m warming up to the idea that using two spaces after a period in monospaced typefaces could make sense. #monospace #typography
Ambition for the year: get the latest edition of Bringhurst’s The Elements of Typographic Style, reread it and see what guidelines I regularly reject. #type #typesetting #typography #bookdesign #bringhurst #theelementsoftypographicstyle
Footnotes have come to version 2 of Affinity Publisher! (@affinitybyserif) Looking forward to trying it out for my next book project.
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Typeface nerds are angry again
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One doesn't need much information in the letters to infer a well known word.
I grew up in a family running a local newspaper, and I recall sitting on my knees in front of cases containing various blocks of letters in many forms – phototypeset prints, Letraset rub-on sheets, even lead type. #typography