This lovely, well-written book is concerned foremost with creating beautiful typography and
is essential for professionals who regularly work with typographic designs. Author Robert
Bringhurst writes about designing with the correct typeface; striving for rhythm, proportion,
and harmony; choosing and combining type; designing pages; using section heads, subheads,
footnotes, and tables; applying kerning and other type adjustments to improve legibility;
and adding special characters, including punctuation and diacritical marks. The Elements of
Typographic Style teaches the history of and the artistic and practical perspectives on
a variety of type families that are available in Europe and America today. The last section
of the book classifies and displays many type families, offers a glossary of typography terms,
and lists type designers and type foundries. The book briefly mentions digital typography,
but otherwise ignores it, focusing instead on general typography and page- and type-design
issues. Its examples include text in a variety of languages--including English, Russian,
German, and Greek--which is particularly helpful if your work has a multinational focus.

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