Choosing the right fonts for BROKEN

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Selecting a typeface for a book’s design is not a trivial matter.(1) When the manuscript of BROKEN was close to completion, I took a portion of the copy and typeset it. All along, I assumed I would use a couple from my staple group of fonts that includes Adobe Garamond, Caslon, Helvetica Neue, and Univers. Nothing wrong with these typefaces—they are beautiful and reliable. But for this book, I wanted to try something differen...