- Dyson, Freeman J. The Sun, the Genome, and the
Internet. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
1999. ISBN 0-19-513922-4.
- The text in this book is set in a hideous flavour
of the Adobe Caslon font in which little
curlicue ligatures connect the letter pairs “ct” and
“st” and, in addition, the “ligatures” for
“ff”, “fi”, “fl”, and
“ft” lop off most of the bar of the “f”,
leaving it looking like a droopy “l”. This might have been
elegant for chapter titles, but it's way over the top for body copy.
Dyson's writing, of course, more than redeems the bad typography, but
you gotta wonder why we couldn't have had the former without the
latter.
September 2003 