This article explains the tab ruler found on every word processor and typesetting application. Understanding the simple and elegant split…
Page layout programs like Adobe Indesign and Quark, allow typographers to exert fine control over justified text to remove gaps…
Digital typography offers capabilities that printers working with hot lead type and wood type could only dream of. Digital type…
Hyphens are an important contributor to elegant, easy-to-read typography, especially when text is fully justified as is the convention in…
In my work with writers, I come across many common technical problems with manuscripts. These usually spring from the best…
How can speakers, indie writers, and self-publishers use a blog to build a platform? This article explains how to publish…
Few subjects arouse more passion among writers and designers than the debate over how many spaces should follow a period.…
The word processor has placed new burdens on writers to understand how to use italics, big and small capitals, dashes,…
This section on dashes, hyphens and dots goes beyond typographic aesthetics to explore how we can communicate more effectively as…
Part 3 of Book Design Basics explores better ways to present numbers on your pages. Numbers (called figures) look simple…
Part 2 of Fundamentals of Book Design explores optical margins, paragraph formatting and spaces. Read about margins, layout and leading…
Designers, writers and publishers will benefit from Beatrice Warde’s eloquent perspectives on the craft of typography, the power of type…
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