Matthew Carter: a–z portfolio designandstyle This book is good—but selling

This book is good—but selling it won’t yield enough profit to justify writing a thoughtful description or photographing it with care

A fascinating document that holds lots of clues to good stuff

Philip Grushkin (1921–1998) was a calligrapher

color printing (including something they call “wax engraving”)

Written as an anecdotal first-person account

Matthew Carter: a–z portfolio designandstyle This book is good—but sellingThis boxed portfolio of prints by Matthew Carter contains the twenty six lowercase letters of the Latin alphabet. Etched into copper plates and hand printed by James Stroud, these are Matthews favorite letters from his own typefaces. Some are from existing faces, some from type designs still in development. The portfolio includes an X page booklet in which Matthew writes about these designs and where they came fromand these short essays are as