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Most people wouldn't commission a custom font for their book to be printed in. Then again, statistician and data visualisation expert Edward Tufte isn't "most people". His earliest books were set in metal Bembo; for later books, unsatisfied with the first digital version, he commissioned a custom digitisation, ET Bembo, co-credited to Dmitry Krasny and Bonnie Scranton. Gill Sans is also used in tables and headings. Generally Tufte's books are laid out with carefully spaced notes and references at the side of the page rather than in footnotes at the bottom.
Tufte's digitisation has been open-sourced as “ET Book”, although a limited character and feature set mean you'd have to be quite determined to use it yourself. Bembo Book or JY Aetna would for most professional users be a better option, I think. (His employer Yale has followed suit, commissioning a version from faculty member Matthew Carter.)
His cartoon parodying PowerPoint (available as a poster) uses the comic book font Wild and Crazy “which I found for $29 on the internet … [it] also comes with a nice set of thought balloons.” It does look nice, though the version on MyFonts has no accented characters (or even a dollar sign), so a redesign might be necessary if translations are planned.
Tufte’s wife, graphic design professor Inge Druckrey, is also interested in human perception of letterforms — check out the Beethoven poster in those links.
Source: https://thesubtlelandscape.com Edward Tufte via "Subtle Landscape" blog. License: All Rights Reserved.
Visual Explanations. Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative was first published in 1986.
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Envisioning Information (1990)
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The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (1992, second edition 2001)
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Source: http://www.edwardtufte.com Edward Tufte. License: All Rights Reserved.
Source: http://www.edwardtufte.com Edward Tufte. License: All Rights Reserved.
Source: http://www.edwardtufte.com Edward Tufte. License: All Rights Reserved.