# Book Typeface Question
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-typeface-question/960770
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Tags:** books-writing-myths
**Created:** [March 9, 2022, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-typeface-question/960770 "2022-03-09T19:12:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@MikeF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeF)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2022, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-typeface-question/960770/1 "2022-03-09T19:12:04Z")
As the result of a suggestion in another thread, I got a copy of The Cheese Monkeys. I’m just into it and like it so far except for one thing. The typeface/font is quite small and the margins quite wide. The size of the font could be increased without having to add more pages. Why would they publish a book like this? FWIW, my copy also has the first several pages, reviews, title page etc., misprinted. At first I thought it to be a mistake but, combined with the printing on the page edges and weird layout, now I’m not so sure.
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### Author:  [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2022, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-typeface-question/960770/2 "2022-03-09T19:22:35Z")
That particular book’s layout is just overall weird. At least one version of it has the author acknowledgments section printed in mirror image.
ETA: It also looks like the borders of each page are using some sort of hidden code, so that’s probably why the margins are so tight.
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2022, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-typeface-question/960770/3 "2022-03-09T19:46:02Z")
Is the author Chip Kidd? If so, there’s a kindle edition for $16.99 (wow!).
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### Author:  [@MikeF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeF)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2022, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-typeface-question/960770/4 "2022-03-09T20:26:10Z")
Yes, it Chip Kidd. My version has the mirror image thing. The “hidden code” results from the edge printing as far as I can tell but who knows? Not me. That’s why I ask.