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The Elements of Typographic Style

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Others have said almost everything that needs saying. I just wanted to get my five stars in because few books deserve them more. This book isn't hands on practical and it isn't a work of art like Manuale Typographicum, but it's perfectly in between with the basics of good typography. If you own (and you do want to own this one) one book on typography, this should be it.

If you only read one book on typography, you could do a hell of a lot worse than picking up this one. The author feels strongly about the subject and while he is in many ways a proponent of classical typography his advice are applicable to other areas of typographic design as well. This is not a quick hack book on how to design type or how to do typographic design with DTP. You need to use your brain here. Marvelous.

Good information but rather a long text for what I got out of it. Gives much positioning/spacing information that I do intuitively anyway. The industry seems to love this book but I think that it could be better with a rewrite to make it shorter and give clearer headings and divisions. For an industry person fascinated by typefaces it does include comments on many different typeface origins.

Pleasent to view and read. Highly recommended.