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Typography

Charles Nix

Choose well. Use well.

Don’t be a stupid designer.

Chapter Title↧

This is an A-head↧

This is a B-head

↧T h i s i s a C - h e a d

↧Nobody knows what a D-head is.

Legible: can be read.

Readable: easy and enjoyable to read.

Read D.B. Updike[ Then go here: tdc.org/helpful-resources ]

Read new fonts.[ Start here: type-foundries-archive.com ]

Papa Bear | Mamma Bear | Baby Bear64 64 64

Hippos are wider than zebras.

Hippos are wider than zebras.

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Emphasis. Emphasis. Emphasis.

[emphasis.] Italic Bold

True Small Caps

Bold Italic

O T F + WO F F

Trenta | Venti | Grande | Tall | Short

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����e� : Apples

����e� : Oranges

����e� : Elephants

Words.

An average sentence has about sixty characters or ten words.

A readable line of text in a book has about sixty five characters.

5

60

65

Justified eBook type is for fools.

The em is a variable.[ And so is the ebook screen. ]

Short ascenders + descendersTall ascenders + descenders

More leading

Less leading

This fine flavor is not this fine flavor.

“inches”

24"

Giant’s inches

3'

It was…the greatest presenation ever.

It was...[not]

“1/8” is not 1/2 of 1/4.

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Hyphen should not be hyphenated.

It’s hyphen-ate, not hy-phenate.

And hyphen-ated, not hyphenat-ed.

Look! I didn’t avoid care-

lessly stacking hyphen-

ated words on consecu-

tive lines!

Neither Mer-

riam nor Web-

ster like being

broken.

[ But they’re

fine with Merriam-

Webster. ]

BANSHEES PROPHESY DEATH!

HERALDS PROCLAIM TIDINGS.

Consistently inconsistent

Put down the knife.

Put down the knife

and get yourself some cake!

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Like the FBI and the CIA

And the BBC

From 1454–present—though

Chicago disagrees—spaces around

em-dashes, en-dashes,

and ellipses are bad form.

A page from the Department of Redundancy Department, paging Bob Roberts. Bob Roberts, please answer this page from the Department of Redundancy Department, please.

Wipe out the widows and orphans.

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