Building Ligatures: The Power of Typetogether

The 248-page book presents a well-balanced mix of knowledgeable texts written by TypeTogether’s core team and essays by some of the most respected and influential design writers and experts in the typographic industry. Featured contributors include Fiona Ross, Catherine Dixon, Gerry Leonidas, Veronika Burian, and José Scaglione, among others. Selected essays reflect on philosophical and ethical considerations, as well as on practical and technological aspects of typographic life. Discussions range from font quality, digital typesetting, matchmaking and licensing, multiscript typography, and history of type design, to more fundamental questions, such as whether the world still needs new typefaces. Texts are accompanied by a series of photographs documenting the life of the foundry from its beginnings to the present day, and a selection of typefaces published by TypeTogether which are paired with their brief impressions by acclaimed theoreticians and font users. Includes a fold-out anatomy presenting a variety of world scripts, which has never been available in similar form before. Readers can learn more about the anatomy of Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Greek, Latin, and the Thai alphabet. "In typography a ligature is a connection, an unbreakable bond between parts that results in something new, useful, and evocative. Over the course of our fifteen years in existence, the TypeTogether type foundry has built precisely that, both literally and figuratively,” said José Scaglione, the co-founder of TypeTogether type foundry. Edited by Linda Kudrnovská Designed by Filip Blažek Published by TypeTogether, 2025 Softcover, 248 pages, full color offset, 6.25 × 9.2 inches ISBN: 978-8-09-084540-4