Issue 04 — Typography

The quiet discipline of setting type well

Why measure, rhythm and contrast decide whether a page feels resolved

Most typographic problems are not mistakes of taste. They are small measurable things — a measure that runs too wide, leading borrowed from a different size, a hierarchy whose steps are too close together — and each one costs the reader a fraction of attention. Set them right and the page stops asking for effort.

“Typography exists to honour content.” — Robert Bringhurst

Analyse this layout

Figure 1 — Vertical rhythm across a 8px baseline grid.