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The Longhand Review No. 14
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II.Pages that read like pages

We set every piece for long reading, on a phone or a desk.

A line of about sixty-six characters is the length people read fastest and lose their place least, so that's the width of every essay here, at any screen size.On a phone the line gets shorter, never smaller: the text stays at 18px or larger. Notes sit beside the line that calls them instead of at the bottom of a long page, and on a phone they open where you are with a tap.

The type is Newsreader, drawn for reading on screens, with headlines cut from the same family at a larger optical size. Everything you click is set in Hanken Grotesk, so text and interface never get confused.Both are open-source typefaces. The printed magazine uses the same two.

Characters a line
66
Give or take a few, on every screen.
Text size on a desk
20px
18px on a phone, never smaller.
Trackers in the letter
0
We don't know if you opened it.

III.The audio edition

Each writer records their own piece in one sitting, in a quiet room, with a microphone we mail them.

Length
About twice the reading time: 31 minutes for the lead essay in No. 14
Read by
The writer, or for interviews, the interviewer
Listen in
The browser, or any podcast app through your private feed
Transcripts
The piece itself, with the notes and sources
A feed address only you have. Paste it into a podcast app.

IV.And on paper

The Print plan adds the magazine by post. It's also on the shelf at these shops.

Print plan, $140 a year

We print on uncoated paper and sew the spine, because a magazine about craft should survive being read in the bath.

Tomas Reyes-HaleDeputy editor, in charge of print

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