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Font Matchmaking

By Denise Morales Soto @dmoralessoto

November 15, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Font Matchmaking

It isn’t easy to find fonts that go together and that suit your book, and there are some challenges and rules to keep in mind. But as difficult as this process may be, it is also a lot of fun and a great opportunity to let your creativity shine.

Filed Under: Design Tagged With: book design, Design, fonts, interior, layout, Ooligan, publishing, type, typefaces

Justified Design

By Faith Martinmaas @theSaltyFlower

August 14, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Justified Design

There are a lot of things that can make a book unreadable: the content, the prose, the plot holes. The list could go on and on. For me, nothing makes a book more difficult to read than badly justified type.

Filed Under: Design Tagged With: book design, book Layout, column Layout, Design, justification, justification Settings, justified, justified type, layout, settings, Text, text Design, text Layout, type, typography

Rehousing History: Finding a New Home for Our 1885 Chandler & Price Letterpress

By Elizabeth Hughes @elizabig

March 19, 2018 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Rehousing History: Finding a New Home for Our 1885 Chandler & Price Letterpress

Last term, boxes were meticulously packed and labeled for either our temporary office or deep storage. Some supplies even lived in managers’ cars during the winter break. There was one item, however, that needed special attention: our 1885 Chandler & Price letterpress.

Filed Under: Manager Monday Tagged With: Art, artist, c3:initiative, Chandler & Price, Design, historical, history, letterpress, non-profit, Ooligan, portland state university, print, Printing, restored, type, typesetting, Vintage

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