Cantara Ali: Week 8

This is the cover of a chapbook by a contemporary poet that I really admire, Fabian Romero. The title is Mountains of a Different Kind (the picture is cut off at the top). The type is ink stamped and is mostly sans-serif. If you look closer the "a" and the "i" have serifs. This breaks up the mechanical quality of the other letterforms. Romero is a social justice activist and advocate, especially for LGBTQIA rights and racial equality. The poems in this chapbook speak of alienation from American society because of Romero's identities of Indigenous, queer, transgender, and first generation immigrant. The highlighted theme of the book is the differences in experience between Romero's opportunities and their parent's opportunities in Mexico. The type treatment is appropriate because of the subtle addition of the serif letterforms, symbolizing the simultaneous alienation and invisibility of people like Romero. This subtlety  is what inspires me and what I would like to achieve in future projects.