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  "textContent": "Contributed by Florian Hardwig\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n _**Source: archive.org **Internet Archive. License: All Rights Reserved. _\n\n\n\nThe photograph on the dust jacket is by Christian Zuber (Bruce Coleman Ltd) and shows a coconut sprouting on a tropical beach.\n\n\n\n\nIn 1984, when the BBC first aired the 12-part nature documentary The Living Planet, Collins together with BBC Publications also published a book of the same title. In the preface, David Attenborough explains:\n\n> The book was written at the same time as the programmes were being filmed. The one is not, therefore, the direct descendant of the other. Rather the two are cousins, both descended from the same body of research and years of travel.\n\nFor the typography, the book’s designers followed the lead of Margaret Perry’s titles and likewise used **Ageratum** as the titling typeface.\n\n\n\n_**Source: archive.org **Internet Archive. License: All Rights Reserved. _\n\n\n\nTitle page\n\n\n\n\n\n\n_**Source: archive.org **Internet Archive. License: All Rights Reserved. _\n\n\n\nChapter opening with the title in all-caps Ageratum\n\n\n\n\n\n\n_**Source: archive.org **Internet Archive. License: All Rights Reserved. _\n\n\n\nThe body text was set in Monophoto **Ehrhardt** by Jolly & Barber Ltd, Rugby.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n_**Source: archive.org **Internet Archive. License: All Rights Reserved. _\n\n\n\nThe Book Club Associates edition features the same basic design for the book jacket, but has all text in yellow, with a black contour.\n\n\n\n\n\nThis post was originally published at Fonts In Use\n\n* * *",
  "title": "The Living Planet by David Attenborough"
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