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About That Typeface: Three Books on Good (and Bad) Design

By Pam Wells @wellsworld

October 16, 2017 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

About That Typeface: Three Books on Good (and Bad) Design

It was the ’80s, and desktop publishing was just starting to take off. Bringhurst felt the sudden availability of digital fonts would overwhelm any inclination toward rational design and cause typographical chaos. He did what any perfectionist would do: write a book.

Filed Under: Design Tagged With: Arnhem, Baskerville, book design, Bringhurst, Caledonia, Comic Sans, Design, digital type, fonts, Hartley & Marks, Klavika, letterforms, Minion Pro, page design, Printing, publishing, Sabon, Scala Sans, typography, Univers, Whitman

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