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Chapter 10: Design Issues 422 Typography While typesetting used to be the domain of skilled craftsmen, the desktop publishing revolution, which started 25 years ago, has led us to the point where anyone can create a document on a standard PC in the home.... More

Chapter 10: Design Issues 422 Typography While typesetting used to be the domain of skilled craftsmen, the desktop publishing revolution, which started 25 years ago, has led us to the point where anyone can create a document on a standard PC in the home. This was followed by the Internet revolution, which has removed the need to print many messages because they can be seen on a screen. While technology has allowed anyone to create documents on a home PC, the skills and experience of the typesetters who knew how to make type attractive and easy to read were not built into the new technology. But we can learn a lot from the experience of these craftsmen. Studying even the basics of typography can have a big impact on the design of your pages, and also on how many (and which) of your precious words are read. Typography can be defined as the art of arranging text so that it is carefully composed on the page to create a readable, coherent, and visually satisfying whole that works invis Less