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MB over-engineered that book. Example: look at the paragraph that stars “But I don’t have visual skills” on this page: https://practicaltypography.com/why-does-
by ashton314 2y ago
MB over-engineered that book. Example: look at the paragraph that stars “But I don’t have visual skills” on this page: https://practicaltypography.com/why-does-typography-matter.html https://practicaltypography.com/why-does-typography-matter.h...
Notice how the open quotation marks hang into the left margin. There’s been some recent work with CSS to make this automatic, but that’s newer than this book and support is spotty. MB made it happen with a (iirc) custom filter inside the Pollen setup he made for this book. Wild. And beautiful.
- flobosg 2y agoSee also the added soft hyphens within each word for hyphenation: https://practicaltypography.com/optional-hyphens.html#:~:text=For%20the%20hy%C2%ADphen%C2%ADation%20in%20this%20book https://practicaltypography.com/optional-hyphens.html#:~:tex...
- OisinMoran 2y agoIronically (or not) this section (on mobile anyway) seems to hyphenate way too much, with three lines in a row and two lines in a row ending in a hyphen (5/8 total lines in the paragraph).