The complete manual of typography
by James Felici · first published 2011
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The best book I know on the topic is Robert Bringhurst's The Elements of Typographic Style. Highly, highly recommended. Other great books: Ellen Lupton's Thinking With Type and James Felici's The Complete Manual of Typography. Both are really solid. Books that would be worth checking out at a library: Richard Hendel's On Book Design and Ruari McLean's Typographers on Type. More philosophical in nature, less practical.
on “Typeplate - A Typography Template” ↗I would highly recommend James Felici's The Complete Manual of Typography. Goes through all the core concepts of typography and why they matter, and provides a number of guidelines.
on “Sublime Text 3 now has font ligature support” ↗…Graphic Design Solutions How Designers Think Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop The Complete Manual of Typography The Designer's Guide to Color Combinations The Elements of Graphic Design: Space, Unity, Page Architecture, and Type The Elements of Typographic Style The New Typography The Visual…
on “Ask HN: Typography—How?” ↗…quirks: - Left sidebar has no right padding - The right sidebar loses its left padding in narrow viewports If you want to go hardcore, there are a couple of other things, based off of James Felici's Complete Manual of Typography : - The measure (line length) at its max width is about double what it should be for the font size (which is inheriting the browser default, usually 16px). Measure in picas (1/6 inch) should be 2-2.5…
on “Predicting Google Product Shutdowns” ↗Here's a pretty good explanation from The Complete Manual of Typography, by James Felici: "No two words in typography are as commonly misused as font and typeface. A typeface is a collection of characters—letters, numbers, symbols, punctuation marks, etc.—that are designed…
on “Typeface vs. Font: Terminology Smackdown” ↗