Mono Space / Colophon Foundry + Google Fonts [type specimen]

Publisher: Colophon & Google
Publication: 2016, First Edition
Binding: Softcover, saddle-stitch
Pages: 68
Size: 150 x 215
Text: English

(Introduction) 'As designers of type, we most often find ourselves composing a monospaced (some - times called a fixed-width, fixed-pitch, or non-proportional)1 typeface in the service of building out the styles of an accompanying proportional type family or type system. It's about adapting the proportional type's forms and rules, and discovering how those letterforms behave within fixed limits to give the face new texture and capability. But what if that constraint was embraced? What if we set out to create a monospaced typeface that wasn't simply an extension, but a true original?

Space Mono - whose name inverts its own typographic classification? - is precisely that, a typeface drawn to be innately fixed-pitch that comprises Regular, Italic, Bold, and Bold Italics cuts, commissioned for the 2016 update of Google Fonts. This monospace-first, monospace-only brood was hatched in the summer of 2015, on the heels of a sans-serif family called Basis, which we created at Colophon Foundry® UK? - again, an instance of a proportional-first...'

Condition: Very Good. All titles are used and show shelf ware consistent with age. Light rubbing to cover/edges.

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