Typography in Real Life
Marquand’s Managing Editor Marie Weiler writes on adventures in type:
Maybe I’m a little bit compulsive. I recall that when I was a child I would come home from school and eat my bowl of Cheerios at the breadboard at one end of the kitchen counter. With each mouthful of cereal, I would walk around the kitchen, matching my steps to my chews – the rhythm of chewing. Then I took piano lessons, and when I wasn’t at the piano I would think about the music and press the keys into the palms of my hands. But an overabundance of hymns and a paucity of popular music turned me away from playing. When I was older yet – a junior in high school now – I learned to type. Ever since, I type words in my mind or sometimes press the letters into my palms as I think or read them. I can’t stop it – the rhythm of words.
