Design Fans Share Their Favorite Cover Fonts On Books Written By Women
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As often as you might remind them, you can never stop a design aficionado from judging a book by its cover. Apart from a book’s contents, it’s always lovely to have a nice-looking title sitting on your shelf or coffee table.
For International Women’s Day and #FontSunday, a weekly activity on Twitter, the Design Museum asked design enthusiasts online to share their most memorable covers of books written by female authors.
It seems that the classics rarely disappoint. Readers sent in pictures of popular titles like Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird and Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. Some of the editions can’t be purchased today, unfortunately.
Noteworthy contemporary works include type designer Jessica Hische’s Tomorrow I’ll Be series and Petra Eisele, Isabel Naegele and Annette Ludwig’s Futura: The Typeface.
Unravel these page-turners written by women below.
To mark #InternationalWomensDay2020, today's #fontsunday will explore books written by women. Send in your favourites from noon. pic.twitter.com/yqc49zDgdE
— Design Museum (@DesignMuseum) March 8, 2020
Vintage cover for 'Louisa May Alcott's 'Little Women' #FontSunday @DesignMuseum #VisibleWomen #InternationalWomensDay pic.twitter.com/1ibYRvb3AA
— Jilly Clark (@Jilly_Pepper) March 8, 2020
The covers for the death and life of great american cities by Jane Jacobs, and her last interview. Essential reading for anyone interesting in urban planning, or championing utility in civil engineering #FontSunday #InternationalWomensDay @DesignMuseum pic.twitter.com/5i9Y7lpdXg
— bryan (@positivebryan) March 8, 2020
this #fontsunday is for the women pic.twitter.com/8oQxV4DX7T
— christina (@tinacalzone) March 8, 2020
I treated myself to two amazing novels this week. The @BernardineEvari is unputdownable, whereas the #Mantel is a daunting 2" thick but I know it's going to be brilliant. Great choices for #InternationalWomensDay2020 and #fontsunday @DesignMuseum. #twobirdswithonestone pic.twitter.com/WrJl33yPyk
— standawhile (@standawhile) March 8, 2020
Margaret Atwood THE TENT @DesignMuseum #FontSunday #InternationalWomenDay2020 pic.twitter.com/7dEb7dftWd
— kiko84 (@kikocasa844) March 8, 2020
A few of my favorites from a series of Virginia Woolf novels published by Everyman’s Library (Knopf) #InternationalWomenDay2020 #FontSunday @DesignMuseum pic.twitter.com/R7PUucH6ku
— ᴍᴀʀɪᴇ ᴅᴜʟɪɴ (@MurrMarie) March 8, 2020
Covers of Everything I Know About Love (2018) by @dollyalderton #FontSunday #InternationalWomenDay2020 pic.twitter.com/oOReBdtniH
— Anne Moloney (@annemoloney) March 8, 2020
Agatha Christie’s “Sparkling Cyanide” vintage edition #FontSunday @DesignMuseum pic.twitter.com/orfd7RcvWK
— alice fukushima (@AliceFukushima) March 8, 2020
.@DesignMuseum’s books written by women #FontSunday — Embroidered book covers - #InternationalWomensDay @PenguinBooks pic.twitter.com/zyWtrCh0HA
— Armando Roque 🏳️🌈🇻🇪 (@ArmandoRoqueCcs) March 8, 2020
Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird. Leatherbound, debossed, simple, classic #FontSunday #InternationalWomensDay @DesignMuseum #VisibleWomen pic.twitter.com/SHjSIaam5c
— JMM (@juliamordaunt) March 8, 2020
.@DesignMuseum We love these children’s books by @jessicahische. The beautiful design and typography make these character traits pop. #FontSunday #InternationalWomensDay pic.twitter.com/NcyhgXJ6sW
— Stiff (@stiffinc) March 8, 2020
Ariel Levy’s the rules do not apply. Design by Lynne Buckley. @DesignMuseum #fontsunday #InternationalWomensDay2020 pic.twitter.com/tXLz71X1LR
— Selected Works (@selectedworks_) March 8, 2020
Some of the most beautiful books about typography have been written by women. These two typographic tomes—both produced with an obsession for detail by type trio Petra Eisele, Isabel Naegele, & Annette Ludwig—are held especially dear. FUTURA … @DesignMuseum #fontsunday #IWD2020 pic.twitter.com/SGVX13Kp2e
— Tipogris Books and Brands (@tipogriscom) March 8, 2020
‘The Young Men’s Magazine’, a series of miniature books handwritten by Charlotte Brontë in 1830 when she was 14 years old. #fontsunday #InternationalWomensDay2020 @DesignMuseum pic.twitter.com/lVj7KBiMRB
— Lea Jagendorf (@LeaJagendorf) March 8, 2020
[via Twitter Events, images via various sources]
