4.1.3 Set titles and openings in a form that contributes to the overall design.
Renaissance books, with their long titles and ample margins, generally left no extra space at the heads of chapters. In modern books, where the titles are shorter and the margins have been eaten by inflationary pressure, a third of a page sometimes lies vacant just to celebrate the fact that the chapter begins. But space alone is not enough to achieve the sense of richness and celebration, nor is absence of space necessarily a sign of typographic poverty.
Narrow row houses flush with street are found not only in urban slums but in the loveliest of the old Italian hill towns and Mediterranean villages. A page full of letters presents the same possibilities. It can lapse into a typographic slum, or grow into a ... (查看原文)
If you use this book as a guide, by all means leave the road when you wish. That is precisely the use of a road: to reach individually chosen points of departure. By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well. That is one of the ends for which they exist. (查看原文)
作者: Robert Bringhurst isbn: 0881792063 书名: The Elements of Typographic Style 页数: 352 定价: USD 29.95 出版社: Hartley and Marks Publishers 装帧: Paperback 出版年: 2004-10-9
