Footnotes issue B
La Police · Mathieu Christe · 2017
The second issue of Footnotes, La Police's periodical bulletin of applied research in type design, covering topics from the Haas Typefoundry to Ladislas Mandel's telephone directory typefaces.
About
Released in October 2017, this 48-page staple-bound bulletin contains six articles (numbered 5–10) by contributors including Alice Savoie, Frank Grießhammer and François Rappo, alongside proofs by Christian Mengelt, Adrien Vasquez and Jean-Baptiste Levée. Topics range from the international operations of the Haas Typefoundry to the Hershey vector fonts and Mandel's Galfra typeface for telephone directories. Each copy ships with a bookshelf mark listing the previous issue's contents and a card of visual clues.
Classification
This is a printed periodical bulletin rather than a typeface; no typeface classification is applicable. Categorised as serif by default as the publication itself features serif typography in its editorial design.