🌱 Thinking with Type

Finished 2021-10-22

Nice overview of typography history and some practical advice on design process.

Covers grid layouts and some basic html/css which doesn’t hold up supper well.

Typotheque - neat bitmap font referenced in the book https://www.typotheque.com/fonts/elementar

A typical indent is an em space, or a quad, a fixed unit of space roughly the width of the letter’s cap height. An em is thus proportional to the size of the type; if you change the point size or column width, the indents will remain appropriately scaled.

Avoid indenting the very first line of a body of text. An indent signals a break or separation; there is no need to make a break when the text has just begun.

DATA PRISON The rules and boxes used in data tables should illuminate the relationships among data, not trap each entry inside a heavily guarded cell.