See what I mean at the online version, haha, "you know what, the conceit works." - nyt. ![]() While it might enthrall a fellow designer, it didn't do anything at all for the kid, who is barely at the letter recognition stage and could care less about upper or lower case, much less serifs and ligatures.įile this one in the To Be Revisited column.īuy Bembo's Zoo at Amazon starting at-wow-$33 Or some other thing that indicates it's not quite working for tiny kids. The book is gorgeously produced and inventive, but it's a bit of a stunt. RdVdC used the elegant Bembo to create somewhat abstracted pictures of animals. The Bembo design was named after notable the Venetian poet, Cardinal and literary theorist of the 16th century Pietro Bembo. The original Morison typeface contained only four weights and no italics. ![]() īembo was a cardinal who got an awesome typeface named after him by the 15th century master printer Aldus Manutius. The Bembo® design is an old-style humanist serif typeface originally cut by Francesco Griffo in 1495 and revived by Stanley Morison in 1929. It's called Bembo's Zoo: An Animal ABC Book by art director Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich. We found this book at the library the other day.
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