Alessandro Segalini

Typesetting details:

A 5×8" 486-page book with semi-automatic line justification (28 lines per page). A text by the recipient of the 2007 Grand Austrian State Prize, amongst many other accolades, including the Alfred Dœblin Prize. Winkler is currently President of the Austrian Arts Senate. Typesetting time: 8 weeks in 39 design sessions; 4 proofing files.

Cover design details:

5×8", spine size 0.978" (486 pp.).
Cover design features an image from the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, Sicily, Italy. The typeface pair is JAF Lapture, with its unique fusions of gothic (Black Letter) shapes into Latin, and LT Optima for the translator line.