Hunt Roman: The Birth of a Type gehennapress One would be better advised

One would be better advised to not judge a book by its spine

ChatGPT says it appears to be from a collection of sayings attributed to Islamic figures

as the whole in Chermayeff’s collages is greater than the parts

namely This [thing] is fucking awesome

Hunt Roman: The Birth of a Type gehennapress One would be better advisedWe always want that which we cannot have. And for the most part, we cannot have Hermann Zapfs Hunt Roman, designed for the Hunt Botanical Library in the early 1960s. This is the story of that typeface, written by those involved in its making at the time of its making. (Heres another version of the story, written fifty years later.) A beautiful book about the last days of metal type, prepared by a team at the top of their game.