Glad you like the swirly things and the book. We got lots of inspiration for our book design from a trip Ed and I made to the old bookshops on Charing Cross Rd. We managed to get to hold a few first edition, beautifully bound, Charles Dickens novels. They were wonderful examples of the type of leather bound and embossed books that we are hoping to produce. You should check them out if you are ever in the area.

We selected a few fonts to go with each of the characters from the band/songs. They can be seen on the Clockwork Quartet’s website (htp://www.clockworkquartet.com/characters.php) on the character page menu. After some deliberation though Ed and I have decided to use them mainly for the website and not in the actual book. As the book will be so small that we need to keep the text as readable as possible.

Neverwas Haul! Awesome! It’d be cool if you could put us in touch…

Good luck with your own book design! Let us know how it goes.

La :)

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I was curious what fonts you actually chose? I find looking for fonts to be fun but tiring — I love the really pretty curly ones, then have a hard time finding a font I’d actually like to *read*! I love old offset printed books, but I’ve never found a satisfactory (free) font that mimics this.

I really loved your sketch of swirlies, and the Captain Cook book is really inspiring. I’m making my own book, (but with a totally different purpose) and was looking for antique books for inspiration. So thanx for the info!

Good luck with all your projects!

Kiki — random someone from the ether

PS I love the steampunk aesthetic, and am good friends with the folks who built Neverwas Haul for Burning Man.

Yell if you’d like an introduction…

Bryan