![]() ![]() This doesn’t mean that our typographic insights are limited to English. The rules for Latin typography might not apply to these other writing systems. There are logographic systems like Chinese. There are syllabic systems like Hangul, used for the Korean language. There are other alphabetic systems like Greek, Hebrew and Arabic. Of course, there are many other writing systems in use in our world. The focus of this text is on the Latin alphabet (which is the alphabet used for English) and Latin typography. The goal of this book is to help students train their eyes to see text as typographers do. But it is important to acknowledge that the art of typography is often subtle, and without training it can be difficult to see what’s going on. This isn’t meant to discourage beginners from attempting typography. In their choice of typefaces and decisions about things like point size and spacing, typographers clarify the voice of the author and make the reading experience more enjoyable. They finely tune the typography for specific documents to make it more than just adequate. However, good typographers are experts who have something to add to the reading experience. The truth is, if you’re using a good typesetting application and you just leave the settings on default, you can set type that’s more or less adequate. Typographers have more typefaces to choose from than ever before, and computers make setting type easier than ever. Please visit their website or your local bookshop to get a copy. Princeton Architectural Press published the second edition of the book in 2020, complete with illustrations, a new cover, and much better paper and binding. This image-free edition will put that claim to the test. You could just look at the pictures, you could just read the text, or, for the best results, you could do both. In the introduction to the original illustrated edition of Inside Paragraphs, I claimed it could be read three different ways. You can read the book and play around with the font size, weight, and some of the paragraph settings. For now, we are featuring this abridged version of my book, Inside Paragraphs: Typographic Fundamentals. At first we imagined users being able to upload their own text or hooking it up to Project Gutenberg. That backstory is the reason Minkyoung proposed making our own e-reader. It’s kind of an amazing experience for a type designer. I have never read so much actual text in one of my own fonts, especially a work-in-progress. The Paperwhite screen is as good as most of the laser printers I had access to when I first started making typefaces decades ago. #Textlab for windows how toThanks to Jesse Ragan of XYZ Type for teaching us how to install the fonts as well as make Kindle-friendly documents. ![]() In fact, I have been using a Paperwhite and Occupant Oldstyle for the majority of my reading during the last year or more. Instead of proofing it on paper or on the screen of my laptop, we used a Kindle Paperwhite e-reader. The process for making Occupant Oldstyle was different than any typeface I have designed previously. ![]() That’s the typeface you are reading right now. We asked Minkyoung to make something to promote our new typeface, Occupant Oldstyle. This website was developed by Minkyoung Kim. ![]()
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