Typography tutorials
Peter Wilson’s article memdesign has a lengthy introductory
section on typographic considerations, which is a fine tutorial,
written by someone who is aware of the issues as they apply to
(La)TeX users. (Memdesign now distributed separately from
the manual for his memoir class, but was originally part of
that manual)
There’s also (at least one) typographic style tutorial available on
the Web, the excellent
“Guidelines for Typography in NBCS”.
In fact, its
parent page
is also worth a read: among other things, it provides copies of the
“guidelines” document in a wide variety of primary fonts, for
comparison purposes. The author is careful to explain that he has no
ambition to supplant such excellent books as
Bringhurst’s, but the document (though it does
contain its Rutgers-local matter) is a fine introduction to the issues
of producing readable documents.
- memdesign
- info/memdesign (or browse the directory); catalogue entry
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