La Perruque – Spécimens typographiques
2015
La Perruque publishes and distributes type specimens. Printed on the margins of offset prints, each issue of La Perruque presents a unique typeface. Altogether, the issues weave a thread between type designers and graphic designers’ contributions.
Invited by Olivier Bertrand, I opened the first issue by quoting the beginnings of Philip K. Dick’s short-novel “Pay for the printer”. Especially drawn for La Perruque, Grotex Micro is put to the test from 30pt to 4pt. The text develops itself as the story unfolds, along strange marks and glitches extracted from pages scanned by Google Books.