I enjoyed listening to Carolyn’s memories a lot. In addition to Davida, the book’s labels and headlines appear to use dry transfer lettering in Arnold Böcklin and an unidentified sans serif (perhaps a knockoff ITC Avant Garde Gothic Condensed?), with an introduction set on a typewriter using a Cubic style. As adults many of us still need to learn about our external sexual anatomy.” -Tee Corinne I organized the drawings into a coloring book because a major way we learn to understand the world, as children, is by coloring. I wanted the drawings to be lovely and informative, to give pleasure and affirmation. “In 1973 I set out to do drawings of women’s genitals for use in sex education groups. The book was reprinted by Last Gasp in 1989, adding French, German, and Spanish translations. She found it in a Portland bookstore and was amused at imagining her grandfather, who used very proper language, seeing his type on such an explicit book.įirst published in 1975 by lesbian activist and artist Tee Corinne, the Cunt Coloring Book was created as a resource for sex education. In a February 2023 interview with James Edmondson for Ohno Radio, Carolyn Minott, granddaughter of Davidadesigner, Louis Minott, identified this cover as her favorite use of the typeface. These are the most common typefaces in the database, but there are many more.
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