Stop Stealing Sheep.

Unlike just about every other book in this show, Stop Stealing Sheep is aimed at the amateur typesetter and beginning students of graphic design. Of course, with the advent of “desktop publishing,” today just about everyone is a typesetter.

Spiekemann is an internationally-known graphic designer, with a few type designs to his credit. E.M. Ginger is a writer and editor who has been involved with many typographic publications.

The title of the book refers to something said by the American type designer Frederic W. Goudy when he was shown letterspaced lowercase gothic letters (“Anyone who would letterspace blackletter would steal sheep.”). The point is: do not do this, it is wrong!