Detail in Typography

By Jost Hochuli, 2008

An attractive, interesting layout can make all the difference - but the devil is in the detail.

Detail In Typography, a bestselling book in the Design Museum Shop, is a concise and close-up examination of Typography. It considers all the elements that make up a column of text - letters, words, the line, and the space around these elements - and it also discusses what is essential for the legibility of text.

However, this is more than just a guide to correct typography. hjow is it, Hochuli asks, that text can be set perfectly yet still appear insufferably dull and ineffectual? Answers are to be found here, not least in the way the book itself has been set and produced.

First published in 1987, this is a fully revised and extended edition.

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