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03 · Ember Publishing2025 · Paris · Remote

Ember Editions

A typographic playground for a house that publishes eight authors a year.

Discipline
Editorial · Type
Duration
9 weeks

Overview

Ember Editions asked for a reading environment worthy of their catalog. We designed a bespoke type pairing, a modular editorial grid, and a set of reveal patterns that let long-form essays feel authored, not templated.

Role

  • Editorial design
  • Type direction
  • Engineering

Services

  • Custom type pairing
  • CMS integration
  • Reading experience

Client

  • Ember Publishing

Year

  • 2025

Read completion

68%

Subscriptions

+42%

01 · Idea

The page as a room the reader enters.

Each essay opens with a full-bleed masthead, then contracts to a measure tuned for the author's voice. Marginalia rise on scroll; footnotes anchor without breaking rhythm. Reading, not scanning.
“For the first time our authors ask us to publish online first. The web became the good edition.”
— Claire Vasquez, Editor-in-chief

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