Technical Notes

The fonts used in this volume of The Pendulum include Playfair Display Italic Bold for headers and titles, Adobe Hebrew Regular for text bodies and page numbers, and Adobe Hebrew Italic for individual artwork attributions.

Playfair Display is a serif-style typeface from the Playfair Project, led by Claus Eggers Sørensen, and is inspired by both the Scotch Roman typefaces and similar designs of John Baskerville, both from the Eighteenth Century. First released in 2011, this typeface features relatively consistent vertical height in both capital and lower case letters, making it ideal for printed material. The bold bodily shape and delicate hairlines make this typeface easy on the eyes and attractive for the reader’s experience.

Adobe Hebrew was created in 2004-2005 by John Hudson of Tiro Typeworks. This serif-style typeface was specifically created for contemporary Hebrew business communications. The Pendulum staff was attracted to the shape and crisp nature of the letters in this type family, which allows for ease of readability by the viewer.

The Pendulum was created using Adobe InDesign from the Adobe Creative Cloud.

The 2022 edition of The Pendulum was printed with a Kodak NexPress ZX 3300 Digital Production Color Press, at Impression Point Printing in Norwalk, Connecticut, by alumni parent Robert La Banca. It uses Enhanced Dry Ink that produces a consistently high image quality, providing vibrant colors, consistent spot color matching, smooth flat field and gradients, and the unique ability to match the ink gloss level to the substrate being printed. The paper used is Accent Opaque 80# for cover and text, and Glama Natural Clear Paper in 29# Bond Translucent Vellum for pages 9, 29, 49 and 71.