The Elements of Typographic Style A Book by Robert Bringhurst www.goodreads.com Leave the road when you wishTypography exists to honor contentTypographic styleA state of energetic reposeEvenness of color+10 More The utter nothingness of beingThe Elements of Style typography
Haven't you noticed? I remember my mother sitting me down at the age of about five with pencil and paper to draw an acacia tree in the yard while she busied herself with her own sketchbook. After a while she came over to see my efforts. “Splendid! But haven’t you noticed how the trunk narrows as it rises? And see how the branches flatten out sideways, not like that oleander over there, where they all go up at a steep angle. Now don’t rub that one out, just do another drawing to compare with the first one.” Jonathan Kingdon, In the Eye of the Beholder Looking Closely is Everything seeing