The art of decorative lettering seems to be a particularly American craft, and sometimes enviably so. So no surprise that Penguin US should have come up with the idea for a special edition of lettered-cover classics, and who better to face the task than Jessica Hirsche, who has already crafted so many of our McSweeney’s favourites… (and who is simply funny – pay attention to her URLs over at her website…) Fastforward to Drop Caps, a truly beautiful marriage between art and type – working their way through the alphabet (they’re currently at L), every book starts with the author’s last name’s initial, beginning with Jane Austen and ending with…
