145: Improve Your Writing With Practical Typography, with Matthew Butterick

Matthew Butterick: Practical Typography Written communication may say as much about you as what you wear. Typography is more than just font.

Matthew's rankings of common system fonts

Book resource:

Garner’s Modern American Usage* by Bryan Garner

Mark Twain received the following telegram from a publisher:

NEED 2-PAGE SHORT STORY TWO DAYS.

And famously replied…

NO CAN DO 2 PAGES TWO DAYS. CAN DO 30 PAGES 2 DAYS. NEED 30 DAYS TO DO 2 PAGES.

Use one space after a sentence.

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Release date

Lydbog: 16. juni 2014