Font made of stacked books

Posted by Cory Doctorow, March 9, 2009 11:57 AM | permalink

Amandine Alessandra's "Books as Type" is a lovely little typeface made out of cleverly stacked books. Book as Type (Thanks, Denis!)

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#1 posted by TroofSeeker, March 9, 2009 12:26 PM

I used to do fliers to invite friends to parties. I once wrote the host's name in hairy clams. I thought that was pretty cool, but unfortunately I promised Oliver that I wouldn't write in hairy clams any more, so he would have an exclusive. Too bad; I wish I hadn't promised that.

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#2 posted by Tenn, March 9, 2009 12:32 PM

Incomprehensible, even for a single-use attention grabbing font. -Shudder-

Pretty idea and execution, though. Maybe if the colored book spines were wider?

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#3 posted by ___kid___chival0us, March 9, 2009 12:34 PM

obviously photoshopped

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#4 posted by Dave Rattigan, March 9, 2009 12:39 PM

I wouldn't say "clever" - took me ages to figure out what it said.

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#5 posted by Anonymous, March 9, 2009 1:09 PM

Is it a typeface if it can't be used for typesetting?

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#6 posted by LB, March 9, 2009 2:06 PM

If they weren't displayed here in alphabetical order, would I be able to decipher what letter each one was?

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#7 posted by nosehat, March 9, 2009 2:39 PM

I kind of like it, but as a hidden-text sort of thing. A sentence or two in this font will fill a whole page, and just look like a random scramble of books to the uninitiated.

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#8 posted by olympia, March 9, 2009 2:41 PM

I'm sorry, this is too book-punk design over function. I like the army men alphabet way better, but even that is not legible. F for eFFort!

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#9 posted by lobsterfancy, March 9, 2009 3:00 PM

The majority of these letters are barely even legible.

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#10 posted by Anonymous, March 9, 2009 3:56 PM

The books should have been more thoroughly shuffled from letter to letter. I like that strings of letters look relatively continuous, but the recurring pattern of similarly stacked books kills the effect.

Overall unsuccessful on all counts practical and aesthetic.

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#11 posted by assumetehposition, March 9, 2009 4:22 PM

I'm not sure I'd call this a font — an interesting little exercise though.

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#12 posted by Gearhead, March 9, 2009 8:59 PM

Rather incohesive, and pretty tough to read as a “font”. What about all those punctuation marks and “funny” accents, for another thing? Nice try, however.

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#13 posted by Anonymous, March 11, 2009 9:48 AM

i like the way this work on typography echoes the traditional composition of text with metal cast - like the letter press, see for ex: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letterpress

nice one!

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#14 posted by Anonymous, March 13, 2009 4:48 AM

nice! just googled and found her website: http://www.amandinealessandra.com/