Tuesday, August 31, 2010

A Word of Advice

The Elements of Typographic Style by Bringhurst, page 20

Read the text before designing it. The one essential task is to interpret and communicate the text. It's tone, it's tempo, its physical size, all determine the possibilities of its typographic form. The designer is to text s the theatrical director to the script, or the musician to the score.

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