Inside the Sketchbooks of the World’s Greatest Type Designers - Maria Popova - Life - The Atlantic
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From prolific design writer Steven Heller (previously) and collaborator Lita Talarico comes a fine new addition to both the 10 finest books on typography and our favorite peeks inside the notebooks of great creators. Typography Sketchbooks is like a visual window into the minds of the world’s most exciting type designers and, in turn, the intricate art-science of typography itself — a medium both creative and practical that has to walk the tightrope between centuries-old tradition and bleeding-edge innovation with equal parts grace and agility in an era of changing reading habits and design expectations.