Studie k nejstarším romanismům
This etymological study of Slavic languages by Vít Boček (the complete Czech title reads “Studie k nejstarším romanismům ve slovanských jazycích”) is part of an established series of linguistic books by the etymological department of The Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. It is also the first book which adopted the new cover design and page layout. It is a result of my and author’s collaboration.
The redesign is a result of a development within the limits of the series’ constraints (such as given format and materials). The generous layouts count on the complexity of academic texts, great amount of footnotes, and readers who have the urge to make notes while reading. The cover plays with the idea of boustrophedon writing as a reference to antiquity, the age in which everything was said already. For this book an extended custom version of the Skolar typeface was developed.
