Baker Signet

I am currently reading For The Time Being, by Annie Dillard.

Aside from being completely captivated by her language, her thoughts and honest struggle with the world, I have been fascinated with the typeface chosen for the text.

Wanting to know just what typeface was used, I tried out a website I found a couple of weeks ago, but haven't had a chance to use. Identifont.com ran me through a serious of questions about the font, and informed me that it was Baker Signet. I had almost given up hope half way through the questions when I couldn't find an upper-case U. Then I saw that she had BEAUTIFUL in all caps, and voila! There was my U. It did have a descender.

After I finished the chapter I was reading, and fondled the book for a minute as I tend to do when I don't quite want to put it down, but know that I shouldn't read anymore at the moment, I noticed that there is note on the typeface at the very end. It reads:

A NOTE ON THE TYPE
The text of this book was set in a typeface called Baker Signet, designed by Arthur Baker for the Visual Graphics Corporation in the second half of the twentieth century. Although usually used as a display face because its lettershapes look handwritten, Baker Signet is suitable as a text face because its underlying structure is that of a classic roman typeface.

Identifont, you had it right on!

The type adds so much beauty this book. It adds an extra allure and mystery.