![]() ![]() The wild display face is FF Folk, designed by Maurizio Osti and Jane Patterson in 1995, and based on the Ben Shahn Folk Alphabet of 1940. It’s that humanness that suggested it as the text face for The Butcher Boy as the main character (although at times savage) is always human. To call it child-like would be dismissive. The face is both typographic and calligraphic, with many distinctive characters and quirks. The text face for The Butcher Boy is Study, recently designed by Jesse Ragan and based on the 1968 hand-drawn alphabets of Rudolph Ruzicka, a Czech-American illustrator, typeface designer, and book designer. ![]() Suntup’s description includes this note on the typography: The book is described as “ a powerful and unrelenting journey into a young boy’s heart of darkness” featuring a protagonist the New York Times called “part Huck Finn, part Holden Caulfield, part Hannibal Lecter.” ![]() Suntup Editions has announced a new edition of The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe, designed by Michael Russem and illustrated by David Lupton. These are the most common typefaces in the database, but there are many more.Haas Inserat-Grotesk / Neue Aurora VIII (48). ![]()
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