One of the reasons I started this blog was so I could write about things I felt I knew a lot about. After running a couple of creative departments and paying particular attention to the art people, I realised that I was always talking about the basics to people who had been working in the industry for years.

It bolstered my ego to be able to teach someone something, but it also left me a little disappointed at the same time. After all, some of these people had been working as long as I had — they should’ve known these things inside out by now.

So, it was funny the other day to get a little come-uppance when I sat down to write about the basics of typography. I googled around to see what topics others had covered, what they said about things, etc., and came across a post by Mark Boulton titled, Five Simple Steps to Better Typography.

It essentially covered the same things that I wanted to, but it was explained so much better than I could’ve ever written it. I even managed to have a few things made clear to me about Hanging Punctuation and The Measure.

It’s great stuff and worth a read to even the studliest typographer! Make sure to go through the comments of each of the five parts as well.

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