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Typography in ten minutes | Butterick’s Practical Typography
Typography in ten minutes
This is a bold claim, but I stand behind it: if you learn and follow these five typography rules, you will be a better typographer than nearly every writer—and even ...
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Tables | Butterick’s Practical Typography
tables
The good news:
tables are one of the handiest tools in your word processor and web browser. A table is usually the right solution for layout problems where white-space characters a...
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How to use this book | Butterick’s Practical Typography
How to use this book
The bottom of each page has navigational links for the previous page, next page, top page, and chapter index (where applicable). You can change the body text font by cl...
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Text formatting | Butterick’s Practical Typography
Text formatting
Specimen of fonts offered by William Caslon, 1728.
When I tell people I write about typography, they often say,
“Oh, you mean fonts?”
Yes and no. Sure, fonts are an importa...
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Font basics | Butterick’s Practical Typography
Fonts control the visual appearance of all text rendered by a computer. Every word you read on screen—whether through your word processor, web browser, or mobile app—uses a font. As does every...
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Summary of key rules | Butterick’s Practical Typography
Summary of key rules
The four most important typographic considerations for body text are point size, line spacing, line length, and font (see font recommendations), because those choice...