Notes from from Butterick's Practical Typography
2 days ago
- #Reading Reflections
- #Web Design
- #Typography
- Typography reinforces text meaning, similar to theater acting enhancing a script.
- Multiple typographic solutions can work well; there's no single correct answer.
- Understanding text goals is key to good typography, not just taste or training.
- Practical tips include Mac shortcuts for curly quotes, optional hyphens, and distinctions between letterspacing and kerning.
- Critiques of design choices like capitalized links and double spaces after sentences.
- Recommendation to refresh the blog using tools like WordPress site importer and Claude.