THE PAGE82 Text typefaces versus display typefaces

TEXT TYPEFACES HAVE BEEN DESIGNED with legibility and beauty as their twin goals. Most text typefaces have stood the test of time and usage as appropriate for lengthy passages of text under a variety of reading conditions and with the expectation of a broad reader demographic. Display typefaces, designed less urgently for legibility (although some are eminently legible), are more about style, so the level of legibility may be very minimal. But their raison d’être is a unique stylistic expression of content.

ProjectBirds of the World

Art DirectorCharlie Nix

DesignersCharlie Nix, Whitney Grant, and May Jampathom

ClientUniversity of California Press

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