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Detail In Typography

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This book is a fantastic alternative to (or companion to) Robert Bringhurst's classic The Elements of Typographic Style. In under 100 well-written pages, it covers the basics of in-paragraph formatting.

Highly recommended.

This is a relatively small book, but it packs a lot into a short space. It is "authoritative" in that it does not provide reasons or explanations for the typographic suggestions it makes. So look for a longer, more analytical work if you need explanations. This is a handy reference that shows the minimums needed to set good looking type. It is a handy reference to keep nearby when looking at typesetting projects that offer challenges. Using this booklet, you have an additional tool to help get well crafted type.

Although small compared to other typography books, Jost Hochuli's "Detail in typography" is really worth buying. However, reading Bringhurst's "The elements of typographic style" (the type-bible, as it's widely recognized) is highly recommended, as "Detail.." treats exactly what it says, fine tuning and maniacal details in the practice of typography.

It's a fantastic, informative resource, but buyer beware, you're buying a pamphlet. It's very thin at 72 pages, and you may be expecting something larger. Just FYI.

A small book but packed with a lot of useful info and examples to help you understand the minimum required knowledge to set legible text.
Highly recommended.

This book is easily the most important book I've read this year, I cherish the knowledge contained in these pages and will follow these lessons until the day I die.

For any book to be about typography and have inexcusable widows, orphans, and excessive hyphenations ruins it for me. It doesn't matter how well it is written, in a book about typography and good layout, etc. the publishers should be very careful that the layout and words match the content. It is like the pastor or priest telling us we shouldn't sin with a prostitute in one hand and a bottle of liquor in the other. It just doesn't go down as well. I am often disappointed in such books that don't know how to follow through by example.

As a teacher of typography at a university I am often looking for good books to recommend to my students and often find them full of errors or simply bad type design. Why?