McGlue by Ottessa Moshfegh (Penguin)
Contributed by Florian Hardwig on Jun 8th, 2025. Artwork published in
January 2019
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Ottessa Moshfegh’s debut novella was first published by Fence Books in 2014. This is the cover of Penguin’s edition published in 2019, after her novel Eileen (2015) won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
For the cover design, Ben Denzer unearthed Argent. This ornamented typeface originated at the Cleveland Type Foundry around 1883 and was continued by ATF in the 1890s. I wonder whether Denzer made his own digitization, possibly based on a showing in Dan X. Solo’s Victorian Display Alphabets, or whether he used Argentum, a digital revival made by Roger Seganti in 2014.
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Argent as shown in ATF’s Desk Book of Type and Printing Material, 1899
