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An A-Z of Typographic Book Covers

By Emily Temple on

Here at Flavorwire, we love book covers. We’re also nerds, so we totally dig typography. So obviously, we really love awesome typography on book covers. And with our typographic book jacket alphabet, we can spell words with our books! What’s better than that? Click through for a (mostly) complete A-Z in book cover typography, and if you can think of any for the letters we’ve missed, let us know in the comments!

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[...] Z through book covers. I like it. But I'm tempted to find better versions.. Join me? The original post can be found at http://flavorwire.com/ where today's recent posts include the Very Hungry [...]

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[...] It’s great when Flavorwire dorks out and does something like the A-Z of Typographic Book Covers. [...]

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[...] covers here. It’s a blog and includes discussion. Here’s another one. Examples of bookcovers making use of letters [...]

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[...] Flavorwire, an alphabet made up of book covers. (But they’re missing some letters. [...]

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For I, maybe "I, Claudius"?

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Love yr. sight. Have you considered W for The Wooster Group Work Book typeset inliss and published by Routledge/theatre performance studies, a most excellent piece of design? Or N for Nohow On, a unique artistic/textual collaboartion by Samule Beckett (his last project ddone before his death in 1989) and artist Robert Ryman who posed the vital question "it's not what to paint, but how to paint? Becekettian exponential, truly a scarce commodity but exquisite! Frazier Neely Southey Russsell

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These are great, where is R and T? Am I just missing something.

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Thank you for taking dorking out to a whole new level.

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For I, you could use I by Stephen Dixon and fill in the rest of the missing letters with Sue Grafton ...

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