Fraktur mon Amour

I didn't even know I was a typography fan until I started reading Smashing Magazine. After a couple of link hops, I ended up at Inspiredology where I spotted these photos:

It was love at first sight. I imagine started googling phrases such as "hot pink typography book" and eventually got lucky and found it. It's called Fraktur Mon Amour by Judith Schalansky.

Presents over 300 Blackletter fonts (capitals, lowercase, numbers, accented characters along with a brief text setting ). Covers rotunda, batarde, textura, schwabacher, fraktur, modern, initials/decoratives, and contemporary fonts. For each font, date, designer and original foundry along with digital foundry/web address where applicable. Facing each font page is a decorative page using characters from the font. Printed in black and pink.

It needs to live on my coffee table, but the only place I can find in English that ships to Canada is John Neal Bookseller at $75. Ouch. Might have to hold off on this one until I have a house to put a coffee table in- then put books on it. We'll see how the late night impulse buys treat me.

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• April 7th, 2008 @ 8:02 p.m.
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