Marcel's Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man's Fate by Carolyn Porter
English | June 6th, 2017 | ISBN: 9781510719347 | 352 Pages | EPUB | 3.25 MB
Seeking inspiration for a new font design in an antique store in small-town Stillwater, Minnesota, graphic designer Carolyn Porter stumbled across a bundle of letters and was immediately drawn to their beautifully expressive pen-and-ink handwriting. She could not read the letters—they were in French—but she noticed all of them had been signed by a man named Marcel and mailed from Berlin to his family in France during the middle of World War II.