Cover adapted for the Brazilian edition.

Entre parágrafos, published by Estereográfica, is the Brazilian edition of Inside Paragraphs: typographic fundamentals written and designed by Cyrus Highsmith. Layout and illustrations adapted for the Brazilian edition by André Maya and Rafael Dietzsch, text translation by Bruna Moreira.

This book is about what goes on inside a paragraph of printed text. As explained by Matthew Carter:

Cyrus Highsmith takes the lid off a paragraph of type and shows its inner workings. There is nothing you need to understand about using type that’s not in this book. Cyrus explains the correct terms for the typographic components of form and space that make a letter, a word, a line, a paragraph, and he does it with clear drawings, simple language and a legible typeface for the text.

The book is set in Ibis Text and Scout, both designed by the author and distributed by Type Network. A custom typeface dubbed CySans was designed by the author exclusively for this book. Simulating his style of hand lettering, it is used for the captions.

Text block set in Ibis Text with headline in Scout.

Detail of the text block.

Illustrations with captions set in CySans.

Detail of the sewn binding used in this edition.

New cover for the Brazilian edition, designed by Estereográfica, using a custom typeface by Gerard (Zwolse Poort) along with his Capitolium family.

Estereográfica is proud to present the edition of Enquanto você lê. This translation of Professor Gerard Unger’s While you’re reading, originally published in Dutch by De Buitenkant as Terwijl je leest in 2006 (and by Mark Batty in English afterwards), is set in Capitolium (text), Capitolium News (captions, notes, small bodies) and Capitolium Headline (titles), all typefaces designed by the author. For the book cover, Professor Unger kindly granted us permission to use a custom typeface that was originally designed by him for Zwolse Poort, a psychiatric hospital in the Netherlands.

Usually (and when possible), we try to keep the overall design concept and appearance of the original edition (in this case, designed by the author himself). However, we thought that the body of the type was to large, and decided to redesign the pages of the book. We ended with new styles for chapter openings, captions and notes, and the format is slightly different as well.

Also, as we mentioned before in other in the article about Fred Smeijers’ book, some modifications (sometimes, very subtle) in translations are inevitable, because the Portuguese text runs longer than the English. In these case, we ended up with something quite different from the original.

Details of the cover flap and title page.

Chapter opening set in Capitolium Headline. Left page displays an illustration of Joseph Moxon's Mechanick Exercises on the Whole Art of Printing, of 1683

Detail of the text block, set in Capitolium

Details of the sidenotes (set in Capitolium News) in one of the chapter openings. Large size on the right is set in Capitolium Headline.

Ângelo dos Santos’ debut work, Viagem em família, is also Estereográfica’s first experience with literary works. Illustrated by Eduardo Belga, these 26 short stories approach human conflicts and issues such as memory, childhood, love, violence, agressivity, desire and death.

This book is entirely set in Zenon, a new typeface designed by Riccardo Olocco and distributed by CAST, marking the beginning of the partnership between this very foundry and our publishing house.

According to the description at CAST’s website, Zenon is a compact text font in four weights. Stylistic influences come from Francesco Griffo and Granjon, but also from modern typefaces to the first sketches of Times New Roman. It has the appearance of a Renaissance revival with modernish proportions. A closer look reveals that it is a typographic potpourri. This typeface was designed as part of the MA Typeface Design program at the University of Reading.

Detail, captions for illustrations.

Como criar tipos (“How to create typefaces”), published by Estereográfica, is the Brazilian edition of Cómo crear tipografías, by Cristobal Henestrosa, Laura Meseguer and José Scaglione, originally published by Tipo e in Spain.

Translated to Portuguese by Priscila Farias, this book was composed in Karmina and Karmina Sans, by Rafael Dietzsch and André Maya (based on the original artwork by Elena Veguillas). This title was also published in Polish by d2d in 2013. 

Detail, diagram.

Detail, sidenotes.

Detail, glossary.

Chaper opening.

Detail of a spread.

Front cover.