The Form of the Book: Essays on the Morality of Good Design

appear Baroque basic font beautiful beginning blackletter blank Bodoni book designer book title canon centered centimetres Claude Garamond color commas correct cover dash difficult Eduard Mörike ellipsis points endpapers essays Figure flush-left footnotes format Fraktur frequently Garamond German Golden Section goose feet hand harmonious headband height and width horizontal indent inner book italic jacket Jan Tschichold leading legibility letterspacing look lowercase major line manuscripts margins matter millimetres old books pair of pages Paper height paragraph picas picture plates position printed printer proportion of 2:3 publisher quarto quotation marks rarely ratio reader reason Renaissance ROBERT BRINGHURST roman type rule sanserif Schwabacher script semibold sentence set in roman shape sheet single small capitals small caps spine stark white style superscript numbers symmetrical text area text block Tight typesetting tion title pages trim-edge trimmed type area type sizes typefaces typography uppercase letters Vic Marks Walbaum wide word spacing