- Publisher
- Merrell
- Published
- 2012
- Shelf
- typography: Craft
- ISBN
- 9781858945675
Craft
Type Matters!
Jim Williams
A short, practical guide to setting type well: spacing, hierarchy, hyphenation, and the small decisions that separate clean work from amateur work.
Why read it
Williams teaches the things that go wrong in real documents. Rivers, widows, bad rags, tracking used to fix a problem that was really a measure problem. Each is shown wrong and then right on the same spread, which is the only way these faults become visible to a beginner.
Why own it
It is a wide, short notebook that sits open flat beside a screen. The point is to consult it while setting something, not to have read it.
Who it is for
Anyone whose layouts are nearly right and cannot see what is off.
Reading order
Book 3 of 5 in the typography reading order. See all 5
Read nextDetail in TypographyJost HochuliHochuli goes one scale smaller, to the spacing of letters and words, and what it does to reading.Read before thisThinking with Type
Opens a search on AbeBooks, a network of independent and antiquarian sellers, which is where a good part of this shelf has to be found, because it is out of print.
Read next
Chosen because they argue with this one, not because a machine noticed they share a category.
- Detail in TypographyJost Hochuli
- The Elements of Typographic StyleRobert Bringhurst
- Thinking with TypeEllen Lupton
Also on the·typography shelf