July 2, 2008

Typography

Type: The “essential raw ingredient”

Scott & Nix is a publishing firm specializing in nature and science books. What you might not know (if you are not another obsessed type nut) is that it is owned by Charles Nix who also happens to be the current president of the Type Directors Club.

I tell you that to tell you this: the Scott & Nix site includes a list of fifty-plus typefaces S&N designers use in their work. The accompanying lead begins: “Typography is both the form of type and how it is used. It plays a major role in differentiating our products from the rest. We consider the typefaces below to be essential raw ingredients to our work.”

They know of what they speak.

scott and nix typeface list

The Scott & Nix typeface list...

There is also a list of 100 Typographic Books...

The Type Directors Club...

In the Ideabook Design Store: Moleskine Notebooks...

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