Abstract The incendiary and hilarious pamphlets printed under the pseudonym Martin Marprelate in 1588 and 1589 contained some of the century’s weirdest typography. This chapter uses this unique episode in book history as a lens for the fundamentals of early modern English typography. It explores how the cultural and social circumstances of a text’s production are made legible in the design of the page, and how the sixteenth century’s multigraphy—its use of black letter, roman, and italic fonts at once—associated texts with certain times and certain places. New statistical research is used to demonstrate the idiosyncrasies of these pamphlets, and the norms in which they (and all early modern English books) participated.