Red/Black/Cream Scheme Is Boring; Displays of Typefaces Lack Visual Interest
No matter how hard I try, I cannot warm to this JUST TYPE 2015 WALL CALENDAR.  Printed on cream stock in just two colors (red and black), it's boring--definitely not the sort of "eye candy" you expect in a monthly wall calendar.  Hanging open on a wall, it displays each month's name in headline-sized type, and a series of odd-looking, mismatched date numbers.  (To see what the calendar will look like on your wall, click on the product-page photos to expand them and see the calendar's actual double-page appearance.)<br /><br />The date numbers appear to be mismatched because they are examples of the different  variations that are available for the typeface (e.g., Matrix Bold, Matrix Script Book, Matrix Inline Extra Bold, Matrix Regular, etc.).  I bought this calendar partly for the "Big Grids" promised by the subtitle, but in fact there isn't much space under each date  for writing in appointments or reminders.<br /><br />At the top of each month's display, there are a few comments on the history of the featured typeface (e.g., Matrix (for February) was the first typeface designed on a Mac).  There are further comments on relative heights and shapes of serifs, terminals, etc., to explain the features that distinguish the particular typeface from other typefaces. The 2015 calendar showcases the following twelve typefaces:  Akzidenz-Grotesque BQ; Matrix; Rockwell; Adobe Caslon; Snell Roundhand/Poppl-Residenz; Copperplate Gothic; ITC Century; Gill Sans; Dispatch; Bodoni; Bauhaus; and Trajan.<br /><br />As soon as I can find something else to hang in the wall space, this calendar is coming down.  The displays simply aren't interesting enough to look at for a month at a time over the course of an entire year.  I rate the JUST TYPE 2015 calendar at 2 stars ("I don't like it" on the official Amazon scale).