![]() ![]() ![]() Good type has always had to do with the use of space, a rare commodity in much of the crowded world, yet something we have in abundance up here. In this issue you’ll encounter a variety of Canucks and their types, and you’ll read about others (past and present) who have left their imprint on our typology and communications landscape. Typecasting Canada, Canadians, and their ilk is also no easy thing. This journal (at long last) in your hands is a manifest attempt at same, even if it has had to skim past many a type-A typographer between Antigonish and Abbotsford. ![]() We are a lettered people, but admittedly, attempting a definitive ‘Canadian type issue’ may have been an impossible idea. Eh to Zed? Some contend that up here in the great, far-flung, white-space reaches of our strong-and-free O Canada we have our own true-North beginnings, ligatures and ends. ![]()
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