Richly illustrated and printed in two colors (purple and pink), Tous les dictionnaires sont des monstres (“All dictionaries are monsters”) is a text by Sébastien Dégeilh. It details Paulo de Cantos’ approach through a dictionary that is surprising both in the texts it contains and in the graphic and visual forms used, demonstrating great inventiveness and audacity for the time. Paulo de Cantos’ work remains little known to lovers of graphic design and book arts, despite his iconoclastic, avant-garde, and prolific output.

This is the fifth issue of La petite collection, designed by Roman Seban. As with every issue, the number is printed on the cover, typeset in his own Bertin typeface. The body text is typeset in Kelvin by Thomas Bouville, while the drop caps and quotations are from Tifo by Romain Tronchin. All of these fonts are available from 205TF.

La petite collection is co-published by the Association Presse Offset and the École européenne supérieure d’art de Bretagne (EESAB), site de Lorient, in partnership with type foundry 205TF.