Men of Letters and People of Substance: A Punny Must-Have For Typophiles

Posted by robin on 07/22/2008

Hark, Friends and Lovers of Type! Forget your worldly aches and kerns, and list to pages of this volume!

Designer Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich has crafted ninety-six glorious pages of sculpted type and ornaments in an homage to great literary figures and epic emotions.

This would make a glorious gift for a serif-savvy dame or the leading lad in your life. Assuredly, it would be the pièce de résistance on my coffee table...if I had a coffee table.

Meet some of the characters below...

Death of A Clarendon

Death of A Clarendon

A brief De Scripto of Why The Caged Bird Sings

A brief De Scripto of Why The Caged Bird Sings

Assorted type-faces.

Assorted type-faces.

Men of Letters & People of Substance is available at Amazon.com. I also spied one last copy at Barnes and Noble.

The first designer there wins. Ready, set, go!

Posted on 07/22/2008 in BlogDesignBook Review by robin | Permalink

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