Over the period from 2001 to 2003 my husband and I will be casting three typefaces on Heiner Buser‘s Monotype machines at his Greno printing office. The first to be cast is 10pt Baskerville. Casting type ourselves comes with the option of having a greater amount of type on stock – for longer texts, that is for books. The font …

Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) was born in Saint Petersburg, had to flee in 1917 after the October Revolution and went to Trinity College in Cambridge (UK) to read zoology and languages. In 1922 he joined his family who had by then moved to Berlin. From there in 1937 he had to flee Nazi-Germany, together with his wife Vera, via France to …