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The Art of Spacing: A Treatise on the Proper Distribution of White Space in Typography

By Samuel A. Bartels

Book information

Publisher
The Inland Printer
Year
1926
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
14 MB (14187398 bytes)
Pages
\107
Topic
Art\\Graphic Arts
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
no
Scanned
yes
Time added
2020-12-04 16:32:42
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Description

Donald Knuth: "Probably the most beautiful spacing ever achieved in any typeset book appeared in 'The Art of Spacing' by Samuel A. Bartels (1926). This book was hand set by the author, and it contains about 50 characters per line. There are no loose lines, and no hyphenated words; the final line of each paragraph always fills at least 65% of the column width, yet ends at least one em from the right margin. Bartels must have changed his original wording many times in order to make this happen; the author as compositor is clearly able to enhance the appearance of a book."

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