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Editorial
2025
Summary
Client
Ostra Type Foundry
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The project
Credits
Design: Lea Moretti, Mara Okafor
Development: Rik Aalst
Print: Drukkerij Peeters
The brief
Ostra makes text typefaces for books and newspapers. Their specimens looked like everyone else's: one big word and a pangram.
The idea
A specimen is a promise about how a page will read. So we set real pages: a timetable, a recipe, a court report, a football table. Each spread tests a different job.
The book
232 pages, sewn and left open-spine so it lies flat on a desk. Four papers, chosen for how each family behaves at 9 pt.
The website
The same pages, live. Visitors can change the text, the size and the measure, and print a proof.
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