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July 23, 2008
Font convention
And how conventional all the fonts are! Click and laugh, if you're a little font-obsessed. I'll admit that I, too, have dismissed Ransom.
via Daring Fireball
Funny funny - but for me especially timely - I'm about finished with Robert Bringhurst's The Elements of Typographic Style, a book from which I've learned more new things that anything else I've read this summer. Gosh, it's good - I understand typography and book composition much better now, and could have learned even more if I'd applied myself.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at July 23, 2008 7:29 AM
Comments
And you are a professor of what? Typography, while obsessively interesting to the artist types, hardly plants any seeds of interest in any other type. Perhaps you are an artist. Typography is fascinating.
.....History of art and architecture - so I come by it somewhat naturally. Though I'm a medievalist, so I'm more interested in book arts as one-off manuscripts. --MCT
Posted by: Kirsten at July 25, 2008 1:26 AM