And I know of a recent book from a small publisher set in Adobe Minion by Simon Garamond, a bit of pseudonymity that tributes what Wikipedia calls “a group of old style serif typefaces named for the punch-cutter Claude Garamond (c. 1480-1561).”

Or maybe it’s just a comment on the Canadian publishing world today when small publishers have to be editors and typesetters too. Wikidictionary defines “minion” as “a syncophantic follower,” and sometimes they may have to be that too, I’m told.

Cheers

Mary

I know of this Simon Garamond, he set two of my books. Over the years, like Dwight Garner, I have been watchful of the aforementioned overly pretentious ‘notes on the type’ indigenous to the back pages of books.

A stanza in my poem about front matter and end matter, called Monograph (from Hurt Thyself, MQUP, 2005), reads as follows:

Late on, an earnest Note About The Type
is a welcome touch. It bespeaks tradition,
the publisher�s sense of modesty,
and adds some ballast below
the blurb, the volumes of un-weighed hype,
regarding this book set:
in Baskerville (by horse-drawn chariot),
in Franklin Gothic (using heritage commission funds),
rarely, in Haettenschweiller (the sadomasochistic heroine).

- Oi!
Andrew