Mary Egan Publishing Award for Best Typography 2018
Finalist
Designer: Alistair McCready
Title: Huia Come Home
Publisher: Oati
Format: 200 x 134mm, 180pp, perfect bound. Printed & bound in New Zealand on 100% recycled stock
Typography: Feijoa by Klim Type Foundry. Singular typeface used throughout. Body text set at 8.5pt w/13pt leading. The use of the three x’s below each running headline, is symbolic of the tuku tuku pattern, weaving together paragraphs of the book. The whole is a sum of its parts.
Judges’ Comments: Quiet and confident, this small volume is an excellent example of typesetting that is at once humble and sympathetic to its content. The choice of Feijoa, a fellow native, is faithful to a deeply New Zealand text. It’s warm, curvaceous characteristics embody the humanity and voice of the content perfectly.
