The initial is not just an emphasized letter fulfilling an aesthetic and visual function. The initial is truly a beginning. Although it is rather the title page of a book that speaks to the outside world, the core of the book concealed between the covers begins with the initial. Whether it is the beginning of the whole book or just a chapter or paragraph, the initial guides us like a road sign in the right direction.

Jakub Spurný (1988) studied at the Typography Studio at the Academy of Arts Architecture and Design in Prague. In 2017 he graduated with his author’s gamebook VIRUS. It was the second time one of Spurný’s books was selected for the Most Beautiful Czech Books of the Year; it also won the Best In Design contest and was chosen for the Graduation Projects selection. The zigzagged and cipher-woven path led from trash typography (Senohraby) through a polished evolutionary Bodoni (Ghitta Bodoni) to experiments in frequency analysis, OpenType functions and the labyrinths of typefaces. He recently became a member of Studio Najbrt and is preparing a new batch of his psychotropic beer.

The book about olympionic and Czechoslovakian representative in road cycling Vladimír Vondráček uses BC Alphapipe for the spine & headlines.

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