Type Tricks: Your personal guide to type design

The book is about typographical rules and the underlying structure of the work process in the design of new typefaces. In that way, it is both a reference book and a user manual. In an illustrative format, it presents the different stages of type design in an easily approachable manner.

The small size and the round corners refer to a pocket sketchbook. The idea is that like a sketchbook, the illustrations play the main role with short pieces of text for elaboration. This should, ideally, induce the feeling of the book being something to carry around, and read a page here and there when relevant. The structure of the book motivates the reader to read sections at a time, not having to read it all at ones.

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