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It has been translated into italian greek, and dutch. Keep in mind design is a creative process and treat these guidelines as a foundation for your designs not a set of rules to follow. The real science of the elements of typographic style is in bringhurst s bulk of explanations of letter construction, page composition, defining and given shorts histories of classic fonts as seen in specimen books, a great chapter on analphabetic symbols. Excerpts from the elements of typographic style version 2.
Robert bringhurst has issued the latest edition of what hermann zapf called the typographers bible. Typography elements everyone needs to understand gravit. Combines a history of the alphabet with a dictionary of typographic concepts, resources and traditions. Put a slight space on either side of en and em dashes 2030 units of kerning space, also called a thin space. If em dashes appear exaggerated in a specific font, horizontally scale them 85%.
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