Typography in ten minutes
If you have a few minutes to spare and you want to raise your typography level significantly, have a look at this Web-based book:
Butterick’s Practical Typography, by Matthew Butterick. The author is an accomplished type designer, and the book is filled with practical advice. You can click on the hyperlinked topics in the table of contents, or click through page-by-page.
The “Typography in ten minutes” page is truly a bare-bones lesson in typography, while the rest of the book is filled with typographic wisdom.
Check it out at http://practicaltypography.com, and if you find value in it, see the page “How to pay for this book“.
Jay Nelson is the editorial director of PlanetQuark.com, and the editor and publisher of Design Tools Monthly. He’s also the author of the QuarkXPress 8 and QuarkXPress 7 training titles at Lynda.com, as well as the training videos Quark includes in the box with QuarkXPress 7 . In addition, Jay writes regularly for Macworld and Photoshop User magazines and speaks at industry events.