"I need a man good-looking enough to pick up a dame who has a sense of class, but he's got to be tough enough to swap punches with a power shovel. I need a guy who can backchat like Fred Allen, only better, and get hit on the head with a beer truck and think some cutie in the leg-line topped him with a breadstick...You might do, cleaned up a little."
--Raymond Chandler, Trouble is my Business

The typeface is Quadraat.

Adobe Caslon has pretty strong punctuation. The original Caslon has even darker commas; Founders Caslon will give you that, though you also get an antique look.

some folks say the periods in Clifford are too strong. I don't.

powers

Know what the exact font Truss uses Eats, Shoots & Leaves?

FF Quadraat. The wide-looking g is a giveaway :)

edit: oh, sorry, Nick already said that ;)

The irony of FF Quadraat in Eats, Shoots & Leaves, at least from my perspective, is that there is no kerning between quotation marks and periods or commas. So the many sentences with phrases enclosed in quotation marks with periods or commas outside have all these huge, unsightly, gaping holes with pitiful little points floating in them.

It's not quite as glaring when the points are contained within quotes, but kerning is still absent.

On second thought, maybe that's why you perceive the punctuation as prominent.

Mildly enjoyed the book, but never got over the irritation of this lack of kerning.

-- K.

Thanks for the info, this issue has bugged me ever since I finished reading E,S&L.

OK, if we're picking on the typography, what's with the faux small caps?!
And lack of fi and fl ligatures.
Oh the irony.