The entire site is now open source, so please feel free to contribute by forking it on github. For too long typographic style and its accompanying attention to detail have been overlooked by website designers, particularly in body copy. Literary style, says walter benjamin, is the power to move freely in the length and breadth of linguistic thinking without slipping into banality. Table of contents the elements of typographic style. The elements of typographic style is the authoritative book on typography and style by. Pdf robert bringhurst the elements of typographic style. The elements of typographic style is a book by canadian typographer, poet and translator robert bringhurst. The elements of typographic style bringhurst, robert on. I am in the process of transforming myself into a book.
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