![]() That experience allows one to ignore absolute statements about typography if they don’t fit the circumstances. Thus, he proclaims, “Personal typography is defective typography.”įor Tschichold, “perfect typography” depends on harmony between all of its elements and is only achieved through long experience. “Paragraphs without indent … are a bad habit and should be eliminated.”“It should be a rule that lowercase is never and under no circumstances to be letterspaced.”Īlthough Tschichold’s essays often focus on typographic details such as widows and orphans, the thrust of his texts is about the responsibility of the typographer/book designer as a guardian of knowledge, someone entrusted with aiding its transmission from writer to reader, from one moment in time to another. But upon rereading the book, I found no dire warnings against “type crimes” and only a few explicit commandments: When and why did this obsession with “type crimes” arise? In trying to answer this question, I first assumed its roots resided in the rigid pronouncements of a German or Swiss typographer, specifically Jan Tschichold, who, as Robert Bringhurst pointed out, “loved categorical statements and absolute rules.” After all, the English translation of a collection of Tschichold’s writings on typography and book design is entitled The Form of the Book: Essays on the Morality of Good Design. One, the grammatically awkward “Most Wanted Type Crimes,” seems to be unintentionally encouraging this rampage of typographic depravity. ![]() The website for Thinking With Type, Ellen Lupton’s popular book on typography, contains a section entitled “Type Crimes.” Ilene Strizver, author of Type Rules!, posts the “ Top Ten Type Crimes” on while Laure Joumier lists the “ Top Ten Type Crimes for Science and Mathematics” on the blog “The Incentive.” Amber Alerts are issued by other bloggers, many taking their cues from Lupton and Strizver. ![]() More and more I keep encountering the chilling phrase “type crime.” At a time when crime has been decreasing in American cities, it seems to be on the upswing in the world of design. triple underline for FULL CAPITAL LETTERS (used among small caps or to change text already typed as lower case).There seems to be an epidemic of lawlessness in the world of typography. ![]()
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