Posted on 08/11/2004 11:18:45 AM PDT by Willie Green
ELYRIA, Ohio (AP) -- For Brian Sooy, the way letters appear on a page is divine.
So the self-described font fanatic and owner of a graphic design firm was happy to get the call from the publishers of New Living Translation Bible to create a font for the nation's third most popular Bible, which is expected to sell up to 1.5 million copies this year.
The Bible printers, Tyndale House Publishers of Chicago, asked Sooy for help in 2002. They were looking for a new font that would make their Bible more compact and easier to read. A company art director, Tim Botts, knew Sooy and suggested him for the job.
Eighteen months later, Sooy finished the new font, which followed the style of the Bible's previous type, but incorporated more rounded letters, narrower lines and shorter stems.
Sooy called it "Lucerna," which means "lamp" in Latin. He said he was influenced by a Psalm that reads, "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path."
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"This is minutia that few people even care about, but that a few hundred people are obsessed with," Sooy said.
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Gee..will it come with high diopter reading glasses?
Carolingian minuscule?
Well, that's the challenge he faced -- a smaller (in some dimension) font that's still readable. If you've ever tried to live through your local newspaper's attempts to find a new font, you'll understand the difficulties involved.
Be nice to see a sample.
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