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Notes from Underground




Notes from Underground

Fyodor Dostoevsky




Typographic Measurements

Page size
  • Width: 5 "
  • Height: 7 3/4"

Text block
  • Width: 23p6
  • Height: 38 lines
Margins
  • Head: 4p6
  • Foot: 5p6
  • Spine: 2p6
  • Thumb: 3p6
Leading: 12 points

Typeface

  • Cover: Daily Tabloid JNL
  • Inside text: Garamond SB Roman


Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky follows the story of one of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiant withdrawn into an underground existence. In full retreat from society, he scrawls a passionate, obsessive, self-contradictory narrative that serves as a devastating attack on social utopianism and an assertion of man's essentially irrational nature.

The design of the cover intrigues by using very simple shapes to make up the silhouette of a man with the title of the book and author overlapping. Although it is a rather dense reading, the typographic layout invites the reader to immerse themselves into Dostoevsky's existentialist and satirical writing.


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