Designed by Riverhead art director Helen Yentus, the colophon embodies the “unexpected, bold and unforgettable” qualities found in the books published by Riverhead during the past two decades.

“An adventure in enthusiasm.” This is how Elmer Adler (1884-1962) described his magazine The Colophon: A Book Collectors’ Quarterly (later A Quarterly for Book Lovers). Each signature within an issue ...

Colophon Foundry recently posted a picture of ... John Baskerville, an established book publisher, designed the font family in 1757 in Birmingham and used it for many of the works he printed ...

Each 831 book features a geometrically blocked cover in two distinct colors and is emblazoned with the imprint’s cupid colophon, setting each apart from others in the romance cover landscape du ...

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has acquired the MIT Press colophon, designed by Muriel Cooper, as part of its permanent collection. Designed in 1965 and now widely celebrated as a hallmark of ...

Graphic Arts GA 2006.02471 In July of 1902, Maxfield Parrish completed his design for a colophon device commissioned by the new Scribner Press. “The Scribner logo, with its three key elements of ...

When Castledown headmaster Neil Small commissioned London design studio Colophon Foundry, he had a big ask: Could the designers come up with a typeface that not only looked good, but improved ...