- Publisher
- Hartley & Marks
- Published
- 1992
- Shelf
- typography: Fundamentals
- ISBN
- 9780881792126
Fundamentals
The Elements of Typographic Style
Robert Bringhurst
Typography argued as a literary discipline, by a poet who sets his own books.
Why read it
Bringhurst treats the page as a score for a voice, and everything follows from that: an indent is a breath, a measure is a phrase, and every convention arrives with a reason underneath it rather than a rule. It is the one typography book that improves your reading as well as your setting.
Why own it
It is written to be consulted one decision at a time (the tables of proportion, the historical classifications, the chapter on combining faces), and it is set well enough to serve as its own demonstration. Most working typographers have been annotating the same copy for twenty years.
Who it is for
Designers past the basics who want the reasons, and anyone typesetting a book.
Reading order
Book 5 of 5 in the typography reading order, the last one. See all 5
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