Layout Workbook

TYPOGRAPHY

Good type is good
         because it has natural strength and beauty.
     The best results come, as a rule,
             from finding the best type for the work
         and then guiding it
             with the gentlest possible hand.
ROBERT BRINGHURST
         author, book designer, historian, poet, teacher, typographer

SHAPING THE PAGE

Typography is visible language. Representing human thoughts, it fosters exchange and preserves intellect through sight, speech, and sound. It is the foundation of visual communication. Typography delivers an array of information from insignificant memos to life-sustaining facts that is essential to daily function and understanding. It is beautiful and ugly, engaging and irritating, meaningful and trivial. Indelibly linked to everyday experience, ...