Welcome

This website is a resource dedicated to informing individuals on the proper and effective use of typography in creation of documents of all types. It also explains some ways to properly use elements such as bullets and hyphens.
This website is a work in progress and is actively being updated. Feel free to contribute, if you so choose. Everyone's contributions are welcome as this resource is for everybody. Please utilize the Feedback page to send me some information or your take on a particular topic. All contributions are credited.
Using this Website
The sections are broken up into four categories: Designing, Structuring, Elements and Anatomies. All topics are not in any logical order, so you are welcome to skip around to other sections at any time.
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Recent Changes
The following are brief notes about content that was significantly changed, updated, added, removed, etc.
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June 13, 2007
- Added information about hanging punctuation.
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June 12, 2007
- Added information about visual hierarchy.
- Added information about optical alignment.
- Added information about rags, widows and orphans.
- Added information about pull quotes.
- June 11, 2007
- Added information about type sizes.
- Added information about hyphenation.