Hey, America, Your Roots Are Showing

Title Spread:
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Front Matter:
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Chapter Openers:
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Sample Text Spreads:
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Back Matter Spreads:
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This book on geneology is both informative and entertaining, and I wanted the design to reflect both those aspects. To that end, I chose Photina, a legible serif font that leans towards the informal, to use as for both body and display, and combined it with iterations of a “family tree” piece of illustration, tied together with grey rules. The tree-and-rules motif also added consistency and structure to a wide variety of chapter title and subtitle lengths.

Hey, America, Your Roots Are Showing is available on Amazon, and you can get a closer look at the design in the Look Inside preview there.