02 · Editorial · Series design · 2025
Marlow Editions
A twelve-title series of reissued field guides. One grid, one type size, and a cover system that has to survive titles between one and nine words long.
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The brief was a series, not twelve books. The constraint that did the work was the spine: at 18mm the longest title has to set on one line at the same size as the shortest, which fixes the type before anything else is decided.
Inside, the grid is a single measure with a wide outer margin for the plates, because a field guide is read standing up with one thumb holding it open.
