Such a great guide. I think a lot of people don't realize just how essential typography is to UI design and development.
Five minute guide to better typography
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#22I think en dashes are good enough to use as comma replacements. I especially like The Economist's style of using a thin space, then an en dash, then another thin space to punctuate the break properly. But in plain text, I'm perfectly fine with using two hyphens together.
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#23If it's that simple, why can't we just let some ML application do typography for us?
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#24It's 10 min yet also a nice guide: https://practicaltypography.com/typography-in-ten-minutes.ht... Just love the book and his fonts :) I know it has been posted before, but I just had to ...
The posted link leads to an article about typography. Your link leads to an add of some book.
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#25It's 10 min yet also a nice guide: https://practicaltypography.com/typography-in-ten-minutes.ht... Just love the book and his fonts :) I know it has been posted before, but I just had to ...
It looks like the author has chosen to "graylist" HackerNews in an attempt to sell copies of his book. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that, but warning you that anyone clicking on your link is actually redirected to https://practicaltypography.com/graylist.html
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#26I have persistently encountered the same problem in this space. Most people I've worked with write documents using the last formatted document they made as a template for the next. Tracing back through their history of documents you find that they are all based off one person who decided it was a good idea to mix fonts and colours of headings, and mess around with font sizes and then save it all as default heading an…
There are countless kinds of cheese. How can we make people care about all those. The subtle taste differences, countries of origin or rippening time.
Same with typography. If you want quality customer facing documentation generate it from plain text.
Re: Five minute guide to better typography
#27It's 10 min yet also a nice guide: https://practicaltypography.com/typography-in-ten-minutes.ht... Just love the book and his fonts :) I know it has been posted before, but I just had to ...
The posted link leads to an article about typography. Your link leads to an add of some book.
It's an online free-to-read, donation-supported book on typography. He just linked to the wrong page.
Which is described in the page he linked, by the way.
Index page link:
https://practicaltypography.com/index.html
Edit: HN is graylisted by the site, presumably due to large numbers of non-paying referrals.
Re: Five minute guide to better typography
#28I have persistently encountered the same problem in this space. Most people I've worked with write documents using the last formatted document they made as a template for the next. Tracing back through their history of documents you find that they are all based off one person who decided it was a good idea to mix fonts and colours of headings, and mess around with font sizes and then save it all as default heading an…
Consistent styles might be a battle you could win, but you're mental if you think people are going to learn LaTeX.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
The posted link leads to an article about typography. Your link leads to an add of some book.
It's an online free-to-read, donation-supported book on typography. He just linked to the wrong page. Which is described in the page he linked, by the way. Index page link: https://practicaltypography.com/index.html Edit: HN is graylisted by the site, presumably due to large numbers of non-paying referrals.
Your link leads to the same adpage.
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#30It's a good guide, the only I specifically disagree with for web design might be the 'choose four font weights' bit since Google Fonts warns me of slow loading times when I choose that many.