Learn Typography in Ten Minutes with Butterick’s Practical Typography
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What could you learn in ten minutes? A few Photoshop tips? How to speed read (so you can enjoy lots more CreativePro content in the same amount of time)? How to write your name in Elvish? How about a subject like typography? Do you think you could learn all the important ideas well enough to put them into use in just ten minutes? That’s the idea behind a web-based book called Butterick’s Practical Typography. It’s by Matthew Butterick, author of Typography for Lawyers, and it starts with an explantion of why he thinks you can learn typography in ten minutes:
This is a bold claim, but I stand behind it: if you learn and follow these five typography rules, you will be a better typographer than 95% of professional writers and 70% of professional designers. (The rest of this book will raise you to the 99th percentile in both categories.)
All it takes is ten minutes—five minutes to read these rules once, then five minutes to read them again.
The book begins with the five key rules of typography (which you can digest in 10 minutes), followed by chapters on why typography matters, type composition, text formatting, font recommendations, page layout, and sample documents.
All of the content in Pratical Typography is freely available, but readers are encouraged to pay by purchasing one of Butterick’s fonts, his other book, or donating $5-10.
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