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Letterforms, and the making of pages

Tag: #paper

Typography · · 3 min read

Notes on reading, on paper and on glass

A measure, a leading and a typeface walk into a column, and only one of them ever gets blamed. Paper and screen do not disagree about type — they disagree about light, distance, and how long anybody will sit still.

Printing · · 3 min read

Paper weights, and the table nobody agrees on

Two paper systems, one of them measuring a quantity that changes depending on what the paper is for. Here is the conversion table, and the honest reason it can never be exact for every sheet on it.

Ink, paper, and the colour between them

Printing · · 2 min read

Ink, paper, and the colour between them

A palette is two decisions: what the ink is, and what it sits on. Everything else is adjustment, which is why one hex value can read warm on a cream page and dirty on a white one.