The obligatory BC
Whitespace
“Perhaps fifty per cent of the character of a printed page lies in it’s letterforms. Much of the other fifty per cent resides in its margins”
Robert Bringhurst
Elements of Typographic Style
Paperless
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“I am of the opinion that it is possible to develop an art largely on the basis of mathematical thinking”
Max Bill
“...the proportions of the formal elements and their intermediate spaces are almost always related to certain numerical progressions logically followed out.”
Josef Muller-Brockmann
The Graphic Artist & his
Design Problems
Typography
“...sane judgement abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence. Now the sole reason why painters of this sort are not aware of their own error is that they have not learnt Geometry, without which no one can become an absolute artist; but the blame for this should be laid upon their masters, who themselves are ignorant of this art.”
Albrecht Dürer
Of the Just Shaping of Letters ..
