Upstart Press Award for Best Non-Illustrated Book 2022
Finalist
Designers: Keely O’Shannessy with typesetting by Tina Delceg
Title: A Clear Dawn: New Asian Voices from Aotearoa New Zealand
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Format: 240 x 170mm, 352pp. Flexibind cover printed 4c with gloss machine varnish on cloth-wrapped 250gsm board. Internals printed on 80gsm Bai Jin 1.7 Ivory Woodfree, with endpapers Pantone 1787 U on 140gsm Woodfree and cream H&T bands to match the cover. Bound section-sewn with flexi case. All stock FSC-certified.
Typography: Cover: Signifier Regular and Medium and Garamond Premier Pro Medium.
Internals: Signifier, A Caslon Pro, Adobe Fangsong Std R, Angsana New, Batang, Devanagari Sangam, Gujarati Sangam, Iskoola Pota, Latha, Malayalam Sangam, Mangal, PMing LiU, Shruti, Sylfaen.
A range of fonts were used to deal with the many non-English scripts throughout the text. In most cases the Chinese scripts were able to be standardised (FangSong) for consistency across both simplified and full-form characters, however exceptions were made so that specific characters and glyphs weren’t distorted in the process. Font sizes for many of the non-English scripts were made smaller than the English, which achieved a more cohesive visual result.
