Typography in ten minutessummary of key rulesForeword by Erik SpiekermannIntroduction
- what is typography?
- who is typography for?
- why does typography matter?
- what is good typography?
- where do the rules come from?
- straight and curly quotes
- one space between sentences
- question marks and exclamation points
- semicolons and colons
- paragraph and section marks
- parentheses, brackets, and braces
- hyphens and dashes
- trademark & copyright symbols
- ampersands
- ellipses
- signature lines
- apostrophes
- accented characters
- foot and inch marks
- white-space characters
- word spaces
- nonbreaking spaces
- tabs and tab stops
- hard line breaks
- carriage returns
- hard page breaks
- nonbreaking hyphens
- optional hyphens
- math symbols
- ligatures
- underlining
- goofy fonts
- monospaced fonts
- system fonts
- bold or italic
- all caps
- point size
- headings
- kerning
- letterspacing
- color
- alternate figures
- ordinals
- web & e-mail addresses
- small caps
- hierarchical headings
- mixing fonts
- OpenType features
Times New RomanFont recommendations
- font basics
- Equity
- Concourse
- Helvetica & Arial alternatives
- Times New Roman alternatives
- Palatino alternatives
- Courier alternatives
- Georgia alternatives
- Verdana alternatives
- Cambria alternatives
- Calibri alternatives
- Minion alternatives
- bad fonts
- identifying fonts
- centered text
- justified text
- first-line indents
- space between paragraphs
- line spacing
- line length
- page margins
- body text
- hyphenation
- block quotations
- bulleted and numbered lists
- tables
- rules & borders
- space above & below
- widow and orphan control
- keep lines together
- keep with next paragraph
- page break before
- columns
- line numbers
- paragraph & character styles
- maxims of page layout
