An excellent and efficient print font. Garamond 11/14 (line spacing a
function of line length) reads very easily.


on 11/16/11 2:13 PM, Robert Hirst at [log in to unmask] wrote:

> Bob,
> 
> The text body is in 10/14 Adobe Garamond (10 pt type with 14 pts
> leading). Unusually large leading, partly because the line length on the
> (new) 7 x 10 page size is almost an inch longer than in all our previous
> books. The extract size is 9/12 and the extract within extract size is
> 7/11Â∏. It's our impression that the text looks as if it were in a much
> smaller point size than it actually is because the type itself is very
> small-bodied. Compare, for instance, any volume in the _Letters,_ which
> are in 10/13 Linotype Plantin, or _Huck Finn,_//which is in 10/13 Trump
> Mediaeval. Both much easier to read. The forthcoming "reader's edition"
> of the Autobiography goes back to our usual page size (6 by 9) and
> boosts the text body size to 11/14.
> 
> Cheers,
> Bob
> 
> On 11/15/2011 4:54 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>> People ask me about the 2010 autobiography every now and then, and one thing
>> they ask about is the point size. My guess is that the body of the
>> autobiography is 7- or 8-point, and the quoted articles within the text are
>> 6- or 7-point â•„ that is, the quoted articles are one point smaller than the
>> body, whichever it is. Can somebody here confirm that or give me the correct
>> point sizes?
>> 
>> -- Bob G.
>> 
>> P.S. Iâ•˙m sure it was mentioned here before, but I canâ•˙t recall when the
>> second and third volumes are due. Can someone refresh my memory on that too?
>> 

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