## About The Book

#### This lovely, well-written book is concerned foremost with creating typography and is essential for professionals who regularly work for clients.

Author writes about designing with the correct typeface; striving for rhythm, proportion, and harmony; choosing and combining type; designing pages; using section heads, subheads, footnotes, and tables; applying kerning and other type adjustments to improve legibility; and adding special characters, including punctuation and diacritical marks.

The Elements of Typographic Style teaches the history of and the artistic and practical perspectives on a variety of type families that are available in Europe and America today.

A few hundred years of type and typography have established rules that only a fool would ignore.

## Reviews

4/5 (16 Reviews)

#### Alfred Rudolf

###### Dallas, Texas

This book is an excellent resource for anyone who is serious about graphic layout.

#### Emily Carey

###### Tampa, Florida

Swiss Typography is a critical guide for graphic designers. I recommend this fantastic eBook.

#### Martin Doe

###### Los Angeles, California

Chock full of great photos of lettering with a little info about the artist and projects shown.

#### Alfred Rudolf

###### Dallas, Texas

This book is an excellent resource for anyone who is serious about graphic layout.

#### Emily Carey

###### Tampa, Florida

Swiss Typography is a critical guide for graphic designers. I recommend this fantastic eBook.

#### Martin Doe

###### Los Angeles, California

Chock full of great photos of lettering with a little info about the artist and projects shown.

## Nicolas Adamson

#### Typographer, Writer, Father...

### Good typography is measured by how well it reinforces the meaning of the text, not by some abstract scale of merit.

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