EDITORIAL

Abstract

We are pleased to announce something readers with keen eyes will already have noticed, namely, that Derek Matravers has taken over from Elisabeth Schellekens as reviews editor. Derek is a member of the philosophy department at the Open University, currently its Head, and a Bye-Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He has contributed articles and reviews to the BJA for many years, and we are delighted that he has joined the editorial team. Some readers may also have noticed that the journal's appearance has changed. The cover has a new design, the typography and layout are new, and the page-size has increased. The last of these changes will allow the journal to be more hospitable to illustrations, such as images and musical examples. The reasons for the others are aesthetic, although not (if such a category exists) purely so. The most important of these is the change in typeface on the cover, from Times New Roman to Gill Sans. As soon as we considered changing it at all, the choice was inevitable. Eric Gill is the greatest of all British designers of typefaces, and Gill Sans expresses the values to which the BJA is committed much better that we can do in editorial prose. It is as legible and humane as Bembo, and completely modern, mainly because, although Gill was a sculptor and stone-cutter, it is independent of the chisel, brush and pen. We stuck to Gill Sans for the Journal's ‘skeleton’ (contents page, running heads, etc.), but because sans-serif typefaces are less comfortable to read in blocks of text, we chose Perpetua, also designed by Gill, for the flesh.