A Note on the Type: "Explorers of the New Century" by Magnus Mills

The text of this book is set in Linotype Janson. The original types for which were cut in about 1690 by Nicolas Kis, a Hungarian working in Amsterdam. The face was misnamed after Anton Janson, a Dutchman who worked at the Ehrhardt Foundry in Leipzig, where the original Kis types were kept in the early eighteenth century. Monotype Ehrhardt is based on Janson. The original matrices survived in Germany and were acquired in 1919 by the Stempel Foundry. Herman Zapf used these originals to redesign some of the weights and sizes for Stempel. This linotype version was designed to follow the original types under the direction of C H Griffiths.

Bloomsbury paperback 2006.

A Note on the Type: "City of God" by E L Doctorow

This book was set in Galliart, a typeface designed by Matthew Carter for the Merganthaler Linotype Company in 1978. Galliard is based on the sixteenth-century typefaces of Robert Granjon.

Random House, First Edition.

A Note on the Type: "If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things" Jon McGregor

The text of this book is set in Berling roman. A modern face designed by K. E. Forsberg between 1951-58. In spite of its youth it does carry the characteristics of an old face. The serifs are inclined and blunt, and the g has a straight ear.


Bloomsbury Paperback Edition 2003.