I just read to the 10 minute guide to verify my fears: While some points are correct, the 10 minute guide doesn't teach you anything. Ihmo every (web-)designer

I just read to the 10 minute guide to verify my fears: While some points are correct, the 10 minute guide doesn't teach you anything. Ihmo every (web-)designer should read at least a few essays from Jan Tschichold: http://www.modernism101.com/tschichold_form_of_the_book.php http://www.modernism101.com/tschichold_form_of_the_book.php And I say that as a typography enthusiastic software engineer. The thing about typography is, when you do it right, it pretty much doesn't leave any room for creativity. There is one right way to print text in a given format. For the web I can only insist that the users choice of font and size should be respected. From there on you can only work in EMs. The first rule is that a line has to span 8-12 words. That leaves you a text width of about 66em. The line height should be 1.2 times the size of the font, e.g. 1.2em. Every element of the text (paragraphs, headings, listings, tables, images, ...) should be spaced by multiples of the line width to keep the text rythm (important). To get an idea what I am talking about you can visit my web site: http://mr.gy/services.html http://mr.gy/services.html PS: justified alignment is to be avoided since the browsers lack proper algorithms. bSad but true.