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My husband bought me the book Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation for Valentine’s Day. From an interview with the author: . . . the earliest typewriter keyboards did not have exclamation marks (typists had to type a period, … Continue reading →

I don’t really do logo design, but this slideshow is an interesting view of all of the iterations of the new logo for Tavern on the Green. I actually liked the shields in slide 6 the best, but of course, … Continue reading →

Another book from this summer is now at press: Cheyenne War: Indian Raids on the Roads to Denver, 1804-1869, by Jeff Broome. Here’s a quote from a reviewer, John D. McDermott, whose book Red Cloud’s War: The Bozeman Trail, 1866–1868, … Continue reading →

From the Guardian, Neil Gaiman on libraries and literacy: Literacy is more important than ever it was, in this world of text and email, a world of written information.

Check out the art on the trimmed edge of this book! I’m working on the details of a fancy limited edition, but we are not going quite this far.

Good typography uses smart quotes, not dumb quotes.

I’ve been working on three dust jackets in the last month, very fun! Here are two of them; the third is about a month out from completion. The first is for a reprint of a book that is out of … Continue reading →

It’s hard to tell here, but this cover is a deep eggplant color. It pairs really well with the warm brown of the foreground of this bison image from the Library of Congress, and it’s a nice change of pace–OJ … Continue reading →

Here’s a fun take on indexing: an album!