Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1 by Karl Marx

The book cover design for Karl Marx’s Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1, translated by Paul Reitter and edited by Reitter and Paul North. It is due to be published by Princeton University Press in September 2024. Description from the Princeton University Press website is as follows:

This magnificent new edition of Capital is a translation of Marx for the twenty-first century. It is the first translation into English to be based on the last German edition revised by Marx himself, the only version that can be called authoritative, and it features extensive commentary and annotations by Paul North and Paul Reitter that draw on the latest scholarship and provide invaluable perspective on the book and its complicated legacy.

The cover design was created in-house by senior book designer Chris Ferrante. The main title and author are set in Atlantic by MCKL Type Foundry. Atlantic was designed by Jeremy Mickel with assistance from Douglas Hayes for the redesign of The Atlantic in 2019. The typeface was further expanded in 2022 and is available as a beta typeface. The supporting sans serif type is set in The Future by Klim Type Foundry.

Ferrante notes he chose Atlantic as the title typeface since it was based on specimens from 1857 and Das Kapital was published in 1867 and thus felt historically appropriate.