Status Updates From Butterick's Practical Typog...

Hah! Decided to play around a bit and add the second edition. I think I was responsible for adding the first edition to Goodreads as well, way back when.

I'm super excited to read the second edition for the first time!

For those complaining about the author asking for money occasionally and advertising his fonts -- read the ending. It makes a lot of sense. Vote with your wallet and help content creators be able to make quality stuff.

its also cool to be able to see a book published like this, and I completely agree with Butterick that more books should transition to using the web as a book publishing medium (and not ebooks controlled by apple/amazon, but the independent web)

Sorry about vomiting all these notes; this isn't really a review. I'm just trying to learn.

ebooks are monetized by companies and even epub doesn't have formatting options, and pdfs are better but still tied to the past and physical pages, therefore more books should be web-based

use the ellipse character rather than typing three dots with spaces inbetween

The style is very snarky and modern, yet still isn't completely clear enough to read too quickly.

use black background for powerpoints

if you use system fonts, choose from the excellent A list here: https://practicaltypography.com/syste...

think of page elements as either foreground or background

the formats commonly required in institutions are dumb (based off typewriter habits) and when you can, follow the advice in this typography instead of a few strict rules (12 pt times new roman double spaced, bleh, not optimally legible); white space is a construct

either indent paragraphs or separate with line breaks (not both)

white space is a construct; 90 words a line; be consistent; don't overstate; use style groups for formatting;

My takeaways so far: use Helvetica; if able, two inch margins and one point lower font size; word processors have lots of cool features like "keep with next" and "page break before"; for hierarchical lists do like 1, 1.1, 1.2, 3, 3.1...; never underline headings (I knew that); you can use font styles to avoid having to plug in the same settings each instance; 45-90 char line lengths; typography history; opinions

I guess the Butterfahrt for his own fonts is now over.

Due to the fact that this “book” is online available online it’s hard to say if it’s really 30% that I read.