JapanEasy

07/30/2018

A Japanese recipe book published in the UK. Since many Westerners consider Japanese food to be expensive and difficult, this book introduces simple Japanese recipes that can be made at home with gentle illustrations. The font used is Harbour, a heavy Roman type designed with a touch of Blackletter, but in the title of a book about Japanese food, it overlaps with the characteristics of the Japanese Mincho type, which strangely matches regardless of the context of the text.

Typeface

Harbour is a clash of Latin and Germanic typestyles - two conflicting letterforms, culturally, politically and aesthetically. Latin letterforms have a geometric base, blackletter types are calligraphic. Harbour takes calligraphic forms that derive from writing with quills, but is a typeface that is clearly drawn‚ rather than written‚ to produce graphic, dynamic letterforms.