The Kaba Mandala is a limited edition collection of letterpress prints with the Kaba ornament developed by the late Dutch typographer and type designer Bram de Does.

A long-awaited reprint of the 2004 book ‘Dutch Type’, a comprehensive overview of type design and lettering in the Netherlands from the 15th to the 20th centuries

Bram de Does has conducted extended research into the endless combinations of patterns, ornaments, and borders.

This book contains two essays by the Dutch typographer and type designer Bram de Does on the development of his two typefaces Trinité and Lexicon.

This is the first publication devoted to De Does’s life and work best known as a type and book designer, creator of typefaces Trinité and Lexicon.