{"id":899,"date":"2018-12-21T11:28:11","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T10:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.podularity.com\/thehedgehogandthefox\/?p=899"},"modified":"2021-01-08T13:49:52","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T12:49:52","slug":"paul-luna-on-typography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podularity.com\/thehedgehogandthefox\/2018\/12\/21\/paul-luna-on-typography\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Luna on typography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.acast.com\/5e957b9f339fe2a164bb4536\/episodes\/5e957bbc3bd94228345c18ae?theme=default&amp;cover=1&amp;latest=1\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"100%\" height=\"110px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My guest in this week\u2019s programme is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/typography\/about\/Staff_list\/p-luna.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Paul Luna<\/a>, who\u2019s the author of a recent book on <a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/typography-a-very-short-introduction-9780199211296?q=paul%20luna&amp;lang=en&amp;cc=gb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">typography in the Very Short Introductions<\/a> series from Oxford University Press. Paul is also emeritus professor of typography and graphic communication at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">University of Reading<\/a>. And \u2013 full disclosure \u2013 Paul and I were colleagues at OUP in the 1990s, where he headed the design department in the academic division and I was a commissioning editor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podularity.com\/thehedgehogandthefox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/luna-typography-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-902\" width=\"236\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.podularity.com\/thehedgehogandthefox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/luna-typography-cover.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.podularity.com\/thehedgehogandthefox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/luna-typography-cover-191x300.jpg 191w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paul has been responsible for the typographic design of a host of major publications, including editions of the Bible and Shakespeare, and reference works including the two most recent editions of the <a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/shorter-oxford-english-dictionary-9780199206872?q=shorter%20english%20dictionary&amp;lang=en&amp;cc=gb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Shorter Oxford English Dictionary<\/em><\/a>. Paul\u2019s university webpage sums up his main area of professional interest as \u2018the design of complex text, especially dictionaries, in both paper and electronic formats\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite knowing Paul for years, I had never asked him about his family origins. I did so just before our interview and couldn\u2019t have hoped for a better answer: Paul\u2019s family are from Ivrea in Piedmont, North west Italy, the company town that was home to the famous <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Olivetti\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Olivetti<\/a> typewriter works. Icons of design, black text on a white page \u2013 I think there must have been something in the water, or some genetic inheritance at work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paul didn\u2019t grow up among the glass and steel structures of Camillo Olivetti\u2019s factories, but in South London. So when I visited him at home in Oxfordshire in November, I began by asking him when he had first taken an interest in type.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My guest in this week\u2019s programme is Paul Luna, who\u2019s the author of a recent book on typography in the Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press. 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