A 20-page standard-size, full-color zine co-created by Amanda Wyatt Visconti and Shane Lin.
- CC BY-NC.
- Current version: v1, 11/30/2025.
“Absolute Unit”: An entity exceedingly pleasing to the eye & soul by virtue of unusual-for-its-kind square or stocky dimensions. Absolute Units are exemplars of: stability! solidity! abundance! confidence! A model for insisting we deserve at-homeness in our world. A righteous & unbothered certainty & a resistance to being pushed about by others.
This zine spreads a feast of images of letterpress printing block, type, & press Absolute Units; accompanied by 6 mini-essays on neat measurement history and interesting, less-known contemporary measurement facts.
We like big wood type, and we cannot lie.
Available now:
- Full-color PDF of zine: suitable for reading on your computer, or printing in full color
Coming eventually:
- Accessible text transcript & PDF versions
- Zine Bakery catalogue entry for this zine containing blurb, descriptive metadata, etc.
- Printing & assembly instructions.