michael@trigraph.UUCP (Michael Winser) (01/06/88)
Does anyone have any wonderful principles of typography? I'm trying to
find out just what makes text "look right".
Are the characters too close together?
Is there too much whitespace?
How important is all this compared to line justification?
What do you know about kerning? What does one do when some characters are
overkerned? For instance, the character pair "HH" is easily kerned to
within one pixel, but this is "far too close", especially when compared
to the pair "LA" or "OO". [Beware, your terminal font is *not* a good
example]
Essentially I would like to know qualitatively just what a good typographer
knows instinctively.
Michael
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...utscri!trigraph!michael Michael Winser
michael@trigraph.UUCP Trigraph Inc.
5 Lower Sherbourne St. #201
(416) 363-8841 Toronto,Ontario M5R 3H8rgh@inmet.UUCP (01/16/88)
I recommend the book "Designing with Type" by James Craig,
Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, 1980. It's a good basic
introduction to the elements of typography.
Randy Hudson rgh@inmet.uucp {ihnp4,ima,sun}!inmet!rgh