Hunt Roman: The Birth of a Type gehennapress safely tucked into a greeting

safely tucked into a greeting of your own

as the whole in Chermayeff’s collages is greater than the parts

A flight of fancy for those who fancy flights of frameworks and formations related to letters and buildings

Weirdly scarce

namely This [thing] is fucking awesome

Hunt Roman: The Birth of a Type gehennapress safely tucked into a greetingWe always want that which we cannot have. And for the most part, we cannot have Hermann Zapfs Hunt Roman, designed for the Hunt Botanical Library in the early 1960s. This is the story of that typeface, written by those involved in its making at the time of its making. (Heres another version of the story, written fifty years later.) A beautiful book about the last days of metal type, prepared by a team at the top of their game.