Tag Archive: Typographic Design

  • Hearing Type

    “Rhythm” and “tone” are words that occur frequently in descriptions of both music and typography. As the author of this article points out: “Music notation is directly comparable to typography – both…

  • Type Rules: Basic Fine-Tuning and Tweaking

    This is chapter seven of Ilene Strizver’s book Type Rules! The Designer’s Guide to Professional Typography, second edition. Here, the author provides the reader with some of the basic tenets of typographic…

  • Punch Cuts: The Modern Page, 1843

    Through the example of Punch magazine, this article sets a frame for looking at the origins and characteristics of Victorian typography in an art historical and socio-economical context. Nick Shinn examines the…