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These two, as can be seen from the bibliographic information above, are almost exactly the same length, and their trim sizes are identical; the typography of the ODNW is superior as is the binding, Neologisms , though higher priced, being perfectbound, like a paperback, and characterized by atrocious typography.
Those who are not designers but typographers steeped in statistics of readability and other scientific applications to typography are fully aware that because of the redundancy built into its characters, almost any serif font is more (readily) legible than any sans-serif face, and trying to make a book look modern by using sans-serif makes no sense at all.
That is a useful and interesting adjunct, and we must assume that it has been called colophon because typography has been subsumed under the original rubric of bibliographic information.
In passing, we cannot refrain from reiterating our perennial complaint about the typography of the newer dictionaries: although the body text is a paragon of clarity, the headwords are set in bold sans-serif type, which makes the characters of some words indistinguishable.
The general production of the book is poor: the paper has too much “see-through,” causing the type on the back of a page to interfere with the legibility; the type is too gray; the definitions are run into one another, with semicolons in place of definition numbers, making it difficult to distinguish senses and requiring one to read through a long entry before coming to the sense sought; it is almost impossible to discover where a new part of speech begins; subentries of idiomatic phrases and phrasal verbs are given the same prominence as headwords, making them easy to find but detracting from the headword treatment; and the substandard typography has created many loose lines which poor proofreading has failed to catch.
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