Compose two styles
Rather than blending two styles into a middle, this assigns them roles: one carries the structure, the other appears as an accent. Where the two fight, it says so before you start.
How to divide the work
- Composition
- Follow Penguin Cover System: Constant bands top and bottom with a fixed central field, only words changing
- Type
- Set in Penguin Cover System's manner (One serif face fixed, size and leading unchanged across every volume), and let Proofreading Marks's lettering (Corrections in red and queries in pencil, one color per person) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Penguin Cover System's material (Ground colors limited to the categories, one paper stock throughout); bring in exactly one thing from Proofreading Marks (Proofs printed at full size with margins wide enough to write in).
- Colour
- Build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 and admit one accent from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615.
Where they fight
- Roughly 1919 years apart. Keep one of them recognisably period rather than letting both drift into the middle.
Caution
- Penguin Cover System Making an exception for each title breaks the premise that the system is the product and the shelf stops reading.
- Proofreading Marks Corrections written as prose instead of marks leave the extent of each change open to reading, and every pass introduces fresh errors.
Image prompt
An original image that takes its structure from Penguin Cover System (Style, 1935–) and its accent from Proofreading Marks (Technique, 16th century–). Structural cues: Color-coded bands; Rigorous composition rules; The Marber grid; Consistency as a series. Accent cues, used sparingly: Lines pairing text and margin; Deletion and restoration exchanges; Insertion and transposition signs; The hierarchy of red. Composition: Constant bands top and bottom with a fixed central field, only words changing. Type and lettering: One serif face fixed, size and leading unchanged across every volume. Let one material quality come from the second style: Proofs printed at full size with margins wide enough to write in. Mood: Trust, Calm, Play, Technology, Intimacy. Color: build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 with a single accent drawn from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615. Constraints: do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. Produce an original composition in the general period languages described above.
Related entries
- Penguin Cover System 1935– / Style / Publishing and Editing
From the tripartite color bands of the first covers through Tschichold's composition rules to Marber's ruled grid, Penguin kept reinventing the cover as a design system. The paperback became a textbook of modern design.
- Proofreading Marks 16th century– / Technique / Symbol Systems
A sign language that corrects a typeset page through dialogue with its margins. The back-and-forth of deletion and stet, and the Western dele, were refined alongside the history of printing into an editing protocol that stands behind every typeset work, this dictionary included.
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