Book of Days

It’s May Day today! Most often May Day gifts take the form of floral nosegays. In this case, our gift to you is the Convivio Book of Days Calendar for May. This month’s cover star is historic wood type from our collection.

Fun fact: Turns out when you set “M A Y” in wood type, you can do so and photograph it and use it without need to flip the image in Photoshop for it to read correctly (at least when you set in in caps). It’s the only month of the year that offers this benefit, and so we took advantage of it.

We’re also on Instagram now, for the past month. The images so far seem to favor circles, rectangles, felines, and a general muted earthiness. Go figure. Perhaps we’ll focus on finding something bright red to photograph next. You can find us there under the name conviviobookworks.

Happy May!