Learn about Typography for Next-To-Nothing

practypI’m enjoying reading Matthew Butterick’s beautiful Practical Typography web-publication. It has put me in my place more than once already (notably, I’m guilty of having preferred to hit the <return> key twice rather than use a command to <add space between paragraphs>). It’s very up-to-date and full of advice for print and for css & html publications. He’s not infallible, and when he gets down to giving you his opinion on different typefaces… well… that is a matter of taste, and he clearly (and not without reason) likes his own typefaces and wants you to buy them. But there’s lots of good things to think about here, especially in the early sections.

The ‘book’ is lovely to look at, put together in quickly-digested snippets and curiousity-satisfying “By the way”s. And every once in a while, he flashes a sharp sense of humour. Even if typography isn’t one of your interests, you can amuse yourself by looking through the Table of Contents and dipping in here and there.

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