Zitat is a matter-of-fact and powerful contemporary roman, which was originally designed for newspaper use. Narrow letters and a relatively high x-height produce the kind of compact type that’s well suited to narrow text columns. Nowhere has more been done than necessary to achieve clarity and yet, when one considers the basic typeface, it sounds a friendly note that is spirited and sensitive, open and dependable, powerful and persuasive.
Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board
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One summer afternoon Mrs. Oedipa Maas came home from a Tupperware party whose hostess had put perhaps too much kirsch in the fondue to find that she, Oedipa, had been named executor, or she supposed executrix, of the estate of one Pierce Inverarity, a California real estate mogul who had once lost two million dollars in his spare time but still had assets numerous and tangled enough to make the job of sorting it all out more than honorary.