When Penguin Modern Classics decided to bring back its Crime and Espionage series, one design feature was surely inevitable. For Penguin readers, crime is synonymous with green. The colour has been a ...

The vast majority of the paperbacks on my father's shelves that I was interested in reading were the classic, colour-coded Penguin books ... to spot the genre – green for my favourite crime ...

Established in 1961, Penguin’s Modern Classics series has featured a huge array of titles ... In 1963, Germano Facetti introduced the ‘Marber Grid’, which put a white, black or green panel on the ...