Max’s Reviews > Butterick's Practical Typography > Status Update
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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
— Mar 14, 2018 03:18PM
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Max
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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.
— Apr 24, 2018 01:36PM
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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)
— Apr 19, 2018 10:48AM
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Sorry about vomiting all these notes; this isn't really a review. I'm just trying to learn.
— Apr 15, 2018 04:02PM
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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
— Apr 15, 2018 04:01PM
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use the ellipse character rather than typing three dots with spaces inbetween
— Apr 15, 2018 12:48PM
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The style is very snarky and modern, yet still isn't completely clear enough to read too quickly.
— Apr 15, 2018 12:42PM
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if you use system fonts, choose from the excellent A list here: https://practicaltypography.com/syste...
— Mar 24, 2018 12:03PM
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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
— Mar 23, 2018 03:14PM
