- Barrow, John D. The Constants of Nature. New
York: Pantheon Books, 2002. ISBN 0-375-42221-8.
- This main body copy in this book is set in a type font
in which the digit “1” is almost indistinguishable from the capital
letter “I”. Almost—look closely at the top serif on the
“1” and you'll note that it rises toward the right while the “I” has
a horizontal top serif. This struck my eye as ugly and antiquated,
but I figured I'd quickly get used to it. Nope: it looked just as
awful on the last page as in the first chapter. Oddly, the numbers
on pages 73 and 74 use a proper digit “1”, as do numbers within block
quotations.
June 2003 