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Page 1: Digital Typography: Font Management - ebookcraft 2016 - Charles Nix

Typography

Charles Nix

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Choose well. Use well.

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Don’t be a stupid designer.

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Chapter Title↧

This is an A-head↧

This is a B-head

↧T h i s i s a C - h e a d

↧Nobody knows what a D-head is.

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Legible: can be read.

Readable: easy and enjoyable to read.

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Read D.B. Updike[ Then go here: tdc.org/helpful-resources ]

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Read new fonts.[ Start here: type-foundries-archive.com ]

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Papa Bear | Mamma Bear | Baby Bear64 64 64

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Hippos are wider than zebras.

Hippos are wider than zebras.

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Emphasis. Emphasis. Emphasis.

[emphasis.] Italic Bold

True Small Caps

Bold Italic

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O T F + WO F F

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Trenta | Venti | Grande | Tall | Short

62100 38 24 14

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����e� : Apples

����e� : Oranges

����e� : Elephants

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Words.

An average sentence has about sixty characters or ten words.

A readable line of text in a book has about sixty five characters.

5

60

65

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Justified eBook type is for fools.

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The em is a variable.[ And so is the ebook screen. ]

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Short ascenders + descendersTall ascenders + descenders

More leading

Less leading

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This fine flavor is not this fine flavor.

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“inches”

24"

Giant’s inches

3'

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It was…the greatest presenation ever.

It was...[not]

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“1/8” is not 1/2 of 1/4.

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�� ��� m� �a��� ���e �a� �� ����e� �ma��er a�� � �a� ��� m�re �a����me�

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�e�� �� �ea�e� ����ear���� me�� ������� �

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Hyphen should not be hyphenated.

It’s hyphen-ate, not hy-phenate.

And hyphen-ated, not hyphenat-ed.

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Look! I didn’t avoid care-

lessly stacking hyphen-

ated words on consecu-

tive lines!

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Neither Mer-

riam nor Web-

ster like being

broken.

[ But they’re

fine with Merriam-

Webster. ]

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BANSHEES PROPHESY DEATH!

HERALDS PROCLAIM TIDINGS.

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Consistently inconsistent

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Put down the knife.

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Put down the knife

and get yourself some cake!

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�e�� �r���� �����

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Like the FBI and the CIA

And the BBC

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From 1454–present—though

Chicago disagrees—spaces around

em-dashes, en-dashes,

and ellipses are bad form.

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A page from the Department of Redundancy Department, paging Bob Roberts. Bob Roberts, please answer this page from the Department of Redundancy Department, please.

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Wipe out the widows and orphans.