Writing, revising, and editing content needs to be convenient, or mistakes go uncorrected and content goes “stale.” The Tameri Guide for Writers has pages with errors. Many pages are incomplete. Other pages are stale. Sometimes, things go wrong, yet lead to a positive change. On November 19, 2023, our web…
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I read a lot of books about the evolution of textual production: books about the making of books. Though I own far more books on typography and lettering, books are where typography goes to work. Currently, I’m reading Keith Houston’s The Book. I want to order Houston’s Shady Characters to read, too. I…
Writers develop biases for how they capture the words in their minds and record them for others to read, hear, or see. We both like to use paper, pens, and pencils for notes to ourselves. Susan keeps a notebook on her desk for thoughts and I have several notebooks on…
I read many books on typography. Currently, I’m finishing a collection of essays and journal articles on typography. The articles date back to the late nineteenth century, with a particular concentration on two time periods: the 1920s and 1980s. The collection is: Heller, Steven, and Philip B. Meggs. Texts on…
My collection of works on typography and general design includes some of my favorite books. The art of placing words on a page, or screen, is something I admire. The designer’s choices, which once appeared with some frequency in colophons, shape the reading experience. Nothing appalls me more than a…
Long ago – in the dark ages before personal computers – newsletters were pieced together from narrow columns of typing. If the newsletter designer had extreme patience, rub-off lettering was used for a nameplate. The resulting pages were transferred to an offset press and copies were made. Rudimentary word processing…
Good in-house publishers know which typefaces they like and can usually tell you why. Great in-house publishers can tell you about the structure of a typeface and how it feels to a reader. You can’t do design work for very long without developing a love for typefaces. A typeface is…
Printers No design is complete until it is in print. There are several types of printer, but as an in-house designer, there are four basic types of printers you should consider. Each technology has its purpose – many designers own two or three printers. In the ideal design office, you…
Designing with Grids Preparing cohesive layouts Design theories are based solely on opinions. If this were not the case, each publication would look like its counterparts. Imagine a world of look-alike magazines – “yuck” barely describes our disgust. Sadly, computer templates and business card mills are creating a homogeneous environment…
Notice that we emphasize software over hardware. The personal computer industry has reached a point where any of a dozen different computer platforms support the same software. The big names in design software, with only one or two exceptions, publish the same software titles for the Macintosh and Windows families…