2K/DENMARK has decades of experience of working with complex books and especially the Bible. 

A regular, very tightly typeset, novel with 500 pages has 150.000 words. In comparison, the Bible contains roughly 783.000 words – that is five long, compressed novels.

We have an unique accumulated knowledge in 

  • designing highly readable, yet compact custom typefaces

  • space-efficient design and typesetting

  • paper choice

  • printing and book production

… and it is our belief and experience, that the best results are achieved through integration of type design, layout, and typesetting.

For us, Sustainable Typesetting® is an equation where the different parameters is held up against each another, until we as professionals determine, that we have reached the best solution for your book.

We believe it is important and the ethical thing to do is sharing the technology and principles at a fair price point everyone can afford no matter if you are a big or small publisher or a freelance graphic designer.

2K/DENMARK and Sustainable Typesetting® is accredited at the Book Industry Communication UK to ensure that your product adheres to sustainability and verification standards. You can read more in their reports "Designed for recycling part 2” which we have contributed to develop.

We are part of the Sustainability Working Group at the Book Industry Study Group US helping to advise publishing to become more sustainable. Watch our webinar “Typography as a sustainable strategy” from BISG.

Furthermore everything we do is verifiable in all carbon calculators, see section at the bottom of this page, “Carbon emission calculators”.

Sustainable Typesetting® requires guidelines on how to implement the custom typefaces efficiently. That is why we have set up layout principles for commonly used book formats.

It is time we as an industry hold each other accountable. We are not unique in acknowledging that by making some changes to traditional book layouts and save pages, but we need to do that without compromising the reading experience - the book has to be sold and not discarded because of a to small pointsize. 

This is why we launched the Sustainable Typesetting®-concept and introduced the Seal of Sustainable Typesetting® certifies that the book you are publishing is not compromised for readability and design, but it has gone through better guidelines for a more sustainable, resource and CO2 friendly production.

This allows you to promote your book with a Sustainable Typesetting® sticker or print on the front, that indicates a more Sustainable Typesetting® along with a personal identification number inside.

Carbon emission calculators

The improved sustainability all else being equal is verified through various Carbon emission calculators.

ClimateCalc, which is a tool based on the European graphic standard for carbon calculation, defined by the European trade association Intergraf.

Intergraf’s standard is the only international graphic standard for carbon calculation in the world. This is important, because it ensures that everybody, who uses the standard, calculates on the same basis.

Internally, we can measure the amount of pages saved with re-typesetting scripts for reprints. If it is a new typesetting, we provide the pages saved held up against standard fonts and layouts. The data put in Carbon emission calculators with traditional layout etc. gives an estimated CO2 footprint of the book pre-production.