Butterick’s Practical Typography

Butterick’s Practical Typography, by Matthew Butterick, will make you a bet­ter typographer. Read it online.

Book Description

The ty­po­graph­ic rules in this book aren’t specific to par­tic­u­lar soft­ware. You can ap­ply these rules in just about any mod­ern page-lay­out pro­gram or word proces­sor. I’ve in­clud­ed specific tech­ni­cal tips for Microsoft Word 2007 and 2010 (for Windows), Microsoft Word 2011 (for Mac), Apple Pages ’09 (for the Mac), and also HTML/CSS.

But the fo­cus of this book is ty­pog­ra­phy. It’s not in­tend­ed to re­place your soft­ware man­u­al or oth­er tech­ni­cal re­sources. So I’ve skipped im­ple­men­ta­tion is­sues that are es­pe­cial­ly ba­sic (such as how to apply bold or italic for­mat­ting) or es­pe­cial­ly com­pli­cat­ed (such as how to implement para­graph and char­ac­ter styles).

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