Notes on the Type, Time, Letters & Spirits

by Dexter Sinister

Three interconnected palimpsest essays recount (1) the backstory of a "meta" font recently updated by Dexter Sinister and used to typeset the Contemporary Condition book series, (2) a broad history of the rationalization of letterforms that considers the same typeface from "a higher point of disinterest," and (3) a pending proposal for a sundial designed to operate in parallel physical and digital realms. Along the way they contemplate the ambiguous...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3956793455
• ISBN13: 9783956793455
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Sternberg Press
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 4.7" x 7.4"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher