In an email Laucke Siebein explained that they didn’t try to bring these two strong visual elements together in a more-or less harmonious way, but instead decided to introduce a third, headstrong item: the typeface Richard, which they developed specially for this publication.

As they describe, “this typeface is a simple, geometric exercise,” in which they tried to draw a typeface with as few as possible different modular elements. “A couple of squares and circle segments, connectable as Lego building blocks,” that result in a wondrous playfulness and reminds of an “old-fashioned, lace fabric table cover.”

Using the same building blocks, they made lines, borders and even illustrations of the fish and the carrot on the book’s back cover.