Font made of stacked books

Amandine Alessandra's "Books as Type" is a lovely little typeface made out of cleverly stacked books. Book as Type (Thanks, Denis!)

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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LB

If they weren’t displayed here in alphabetical order, would I be able to decipher what letter each one was?
Anonymous

nice! just googled and found her website: http://www.amandinealessandra.com/
nosehat

I kind of like it, but as a hidden-text sort of thing. A sentence or two in this font will fill a whole page, and just look like a random scramble of books to the uninitiated.
olympia

I’m sorry, this is too book-punk design over function. I like the army men alphabet way better, but even that is not legible. F for eFFort!
lobsterfancy

The majority of these letters are barely even legible.
Gearhead

Rather incohesive, and pretty tough to read as a â€œfontâ€. What about all those punctuation marks and â€œfunnyâ€ accents, for another thing? Nice try, however.
TroofSeeker

I used to do fliers to invite friends to parties. I once wrote the host’s name in hairy clams. I thought that was pretty cool, but unfortunately I promised Oliver that I wouldn’t write in hairy clams any more, so he would have an exclusive. Too bad; I wish I hadn’t promised that.
Anonymous

The books should have been more thoroughly shuffled from letter to letter. I like that strings of letters look relatively continuous, but the recurring pattern of similarly stacked books kills the effect.

Overall unsuccessful on all counts practical and aesthetic.
Tenn

Incomprehensible, even for a single-use attention grabbing font. -Shudder-

Pretty idea and execution, though. Maybe if the colored book spines were wider?
___kid___chival0us

obviously photoshopped
Anonymous

i like the way this work on typography echoes the traditional composition of text with metal cast – like the letter press, see for ex: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letterpress

nice one!
Dave Rattigan

I wouldn’t say “clever” – took me ages to figure out what it said.
assumetehposition

I’m not sure I’d call this a font â€” an interesting little exercise though.
Anonymous

Is it a typeface if it can’t be used for typesetting?