Books it has made
Books, composed by the library, printed to PDF.
Each book is a manuscript, a set of anchored figures, a grid, a type system, and a seed, passed to one function. Each uses a different grid and face over the same machinery.
The Geviert Manual
The library's account of itself: the specification, fourteen live demonstrations, six commissions with source and result side by side, the canon, the API, and the suite. It also composes live, on its own page.
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The Margin
A square book, made to exercise the difficult things: pull quotes in grid fields, rotated marginal text, justified setting, dropped initials.
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The Numeral
An essay on the figures: the pebble, the tally, the zero, the ledger, Dürer's square, the folio. The first book set with the title apparatus: chapter numerals on three lines, titles over rules, italic subtitles, bold heads, in Constantia's old-style figures.
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The Centering
All‑DIN, marginal caption column, signal numerals, a measured title. Bleeds, duotone plates, full‑page plates.
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Against Tables
How numbers learned to draw: Playfair, Nightingale, Minard. The charts in it are drawn by the library itself, bars a whole number of text lines tall, charting the book's own body.
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The Field
An essay in seven chapters on where the grid came from and what it is for: the field, the module, the measure, the margin. Twenty plates, each a grid drawn by the library about itself.
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النقطة والشبكة · The Dot and the Grid
An essay in Arabic on the module in Arabic letters, from Ibn Muqla's rhombic dot to the seeded page, with plates from al-Wasiti, al-Jazari and al-Sufi. Composed right to left, measured shaped in a real browser.
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bauhaus · in two languages
German in the left half of every page, English in the right, one register for both, after the construction of Müller-Brockmann's own bilingual book. Chapters resynchronise on fresh leaves; plates from Schlemmer, Klee, Kandinsky and Moholy-Nagy.
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Stilleven
An essay on the Dutch flower piece, twenty plates, dark ground. The drop caps, the marginal captions, the widow control: all derived.
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Stilleven, edition B
The same words and the same pictures, a different grid and a different face. One argument, two typographies, no hand-work between them.
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