Pearl * - a journal of typographic history, theory and practice - is aimed at those with either an academic, professional or passing interest in typography and typeface design and includes academics, researchers, teachers, creative practitioners and students from the across the international typographic community. 

The intention of the Journal is to fill a need for a regular, peer-reviewed publication primarily devoted to typography, which is international in outlook and scope and critical and analytical in approach. Alongside the traditional aspects of the subject, it is also important that Pearl should focus its attention on those many kinds of persuasive and utilitarian items of typography, which are such an important feature of every-day life. Therefore, the aim of this journal is to explore not only mainstream typography but also some of these less familiar, though significant, areas of the discipline. An equally important remit for the publication is to provide an arena where the work and voices of early career researchers, younger designers, artists and writers can be seen and heard alongside those whose reputation is more established.

Pearl aims to be diverse in content, eclectic in spirit, marginal in its sympathies yet international in appeal whose editors, contributors and readers are prepared to experiment with the subject and push the boundaries of typography. Each edition of the journal will be carefully themed and though scholarly in its standards it will not be hide-bound by convention.

Typography and typeface design – both as academic subjects and professional disciplines – are well-defined fields, however, the appeal of the subject is that it overlaps many other domains of research and practice. Therefore, the wider readership for Pearl includes academics and creative practitioners from the allied professions of: graphic design and visual communication; information design; web and digital designprinting and graphic reproduction; printmaking; bookbinding; lettering arts, calligraphy and sign writing; publishing and book design; advertising, packaging and printed ephemera; arts and crafts communities; librarianship; bibliography