Prac­ti­cal Ty­pog­ra­phy

IANAL, but I'm purchasing the OP's other book, "Typography for Lawyers" ($10 on Kindle) http://www.amazon.com/Typography-for-Lawyers-ebook/dp/B005JV... Partly to thank the author for writing the OP, but also because I find it just fascinating that he found a niche not just in typography, but the importance of typography in the legal arena. Seems like there should be an equally important niche for a book, "Programming for Lawyers", much of which would involve batch document scanning and analysis.

It took me a while to figure out that links in the text were ALL CAPS instead of underlined and/or blue. The hover effect was so subtle that I didn't notice it at first. I ended up hovering over acronyms pretty often, as I was never sure if those were also links. That is not good design. There's also the issue that while the site may look pretty, it requires downloading 5 megabytes of CSS. At every job I've had…

I spent an evening reading this, it was enjoyable. It was more enjoyable than an "average" pre-covid entertainment I could get for $19. So I sent $19 for the author, all for a very enjoyable evening. My favourites: 1. https://practicaltypography.com/system-fonts.html strong thoughts on Arial font. 2. https://practicaltypography.com/the-cowardice-of-brave.html very strong thoughts on Brave browser. 3. https://practicaltypography.com/websites.html author bashing hamburger menu (and some other current-day fashions)…

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