Decoded by Mai Jia

Published May 12, 2026
Contributed by Aubrey Hays, Frere-Jones Type


Source: frerejones.com Farrar, Straus and Giroux. License: All Rights Reserved.


Decoded by Maj Jia was designed by Rodrigo Corral and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, using Nobel by Frere-Jones Type.

Decoded is a 2002 spy thriller, translated from the Chinese by Olivia Milburn and Christopher Payne in 2014, about a brilliant but autistic mathematician, Rong Jinzhen, recruited by the top-secret Chinese intelligence agency Unit 701 for code-breaking during the WWII era and its aftermath.




Source: frerejones.com Farrar, Straus and Giroux. License: All Rights Reserved.

This post was originally published at Fonts In Use
WRITTEN BY

FontsInUse

An independent archive of typography.