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Designers dealing with fonts and typography often ask “Which books would you recommend as a guide to good design principles?” And no matter how many responses, one book comes out on top every time—Robert Bringhurst’s The Elements of Typographic Style.

It is obvious from almost every word that Bringhurst’s thought profoundly about the fundamental issues of printed words on the page, and he often has insights to offer on topics most of us take for granted. Bringhurst can conjure poetry out of the smallest detail, and he offers a scholarly yet succinct etymology of almost every mark that can be made—from the humble hyphen to the nuances of serifs on Trajan Roman or a Carolingian majuscule.

This is a wonderful book that fully deserves its widespread reputation as a classic and the ultimate guide for laying out pages in print or on screen. Anyone who wishes to gain insights into the æsthetics and the finer details of good design should read this book. Anyone with a serious typographic intent should own it.

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