Letters lost and found

Behind the digital debut of a beautiful Hebrew typeface first crafted in the 16th century.

Type designer Scott-Martin Kosofsky explains the creation of Le Bé, his new digitization of a beautiful 16th-century Hebrew typeface. It debuts in The Selected Poems of Yehuda Halevi, a Nextbook Press e-book to be published this week.

Published by Tablet Magazine. The slideshow also got picked up by the Fast Company blog and the Atlantic Monthly.

~ by Ari Daniel on February 16, 2011.

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