Notes on Typography series taps into emerging discourses and new voices that address typographic topics with specific points of interest, and examine them from different angles. Titles in the series provide a rich and open space for sharp, accessible design scholarship, where authors can take a specific typographic subject as a point of entry and examine it in novel ways. This will facilitate a fruitful crossflow of ideas between practice-led approaches, academic research, and a variety of disciplinary concerns that may otherwise not fit in the scope of traditional historical enquiries or design writing. We also envision the series working equally well across physical and e-book formats, with wider appeal for academic audiences, design practitioners, as well as an interested general design readership.


While there are plenty of standard histories and practical guides in the field, publications exploring new and critical perspectives on typography are a conspicuous absence. Such perspectives are particularly important today in unpacking global histories of visual communication and design beyond the traditional actors and areas of focus, and the series proposes a much-needed departure and new directions in typographic scholarship by introducing a diversity of voices and fostering a critical body of work through short, accessible texts by a global community of researchers.