Study Task 08 - Typesetting

In this session, we had to look into the re-typeset of Lewis Carroll's - A Mouses Tale using a postmodern approach and a modernist approach.

Lewis Carroll's - A Mouses Tale Original 

The Mouse's Tale by Lewis Carroll  

"Mine is a long and a sad tale!" said the Mouse, turning to Alice, and sighing. "It is a long tail, certainly," said Alice, looking down with wonder at the Mouse's 

tail; "but why do you call it sad?" And she kept on puzzling about it while the 

Mouse was speaking, so that her idea of the tale was something like this:— Fury 

said to a mouse, That he met in the house,  “Let us both go to law: I will 

prosecute you.” Come, I'll take no denial, We must have a trial, For really this 

morning I've nothing to do. Said the mouse to the cur,  “Such a trial, dear sir,  

With no jury or judge,  would be wasting our breath.” “I’ll be judge, I'll be jury”Said cunning old Fury;  “I’ll try the whole cause, and condemn you to death."

Postmodernist Approach - Metrolite

William Addison Dwiggins (1880 – 1956), was an American type designer, calligrapher, and book designer. Who designed the typeface Metrolite. 

Modernist Approach - Sabon

Sabon is an old-style serif typeface created by a German-born typographer and designer Jan Tschichold (1902–1974).