Sometime in the 1960s, hypertext pioneer Ted Nelson envisioned deep linking to specific pieces of text as a core feature of his proposed Project Xanadu system. (My first exposure to Xanadu came in the ...

Read about the beautiful form and convenient function of one of books’ most distinctive features Morgan Aronson and Lilla Vekerdy Woodcut initials from Andreas Vesalius’s, De humani corporis fabrica, ...

As you’re racing through a thriller or romance novel, you’re not thinking about the fonts or layout on each page. But a designer has spent hours poring over each element on the page to create the most ...

We all know the old saying ‘never judge a book by its cover’, but what about the text on its pages? Typography on cover design might get you to pick up the latest hardback or paperback, but if the ...