Well, the coloured typeface in We're Going to build as Dam did all change – for two reasons: coloured font
presents problems for overseas translation if it’s part of the colour plate and
if it’s going to have to be printed separately then that’s extra cost. The
other reason was aesthetic – the black font looks good with the black line.
It’s all a bit stronger. Now I have to decide whether the boys voices are
going to be differentiated in tones of black – the more emphatic character in bold
possibly. However, the more I read the story on its own without pictures, the more I’m in favour
of leaving them undifferentiated. They are simply two boys – anonymous.
The two
boys who inspired them both happened to be called Calum – or more often ‘the
two Calums’ - as if they were one. Here’s a photo of them having just made
their dam on Kiloran beach. On a rare sunny day all those years ago!
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