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Typographic dimensions and conventional wisdom: A discrepancy?

journal contribution
posted on 2020-09-16, 15:31 authored by Karel van der Waarde
◆ Finds that x-height, line length, and line spacing in brochures, scientific journals, and novels do not reflect typographic guidelines ◆ Demonstrates that the boundaries for these typographic dimensions differ by genre.

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School

  • Design and Creative Arts

Department

  • Design

Published in

Technical Communication

Volume

46

Issue

1

Pages

67 - 74

Publisher

Society for Technical Communication

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

Rights holder

© Society for Technical Communication

Publisher statement

This paper was published in the journal Technical Communication and the definitive published version is available at https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/stc/tc/1999/00000046/00000001/art00007.

Acceptance date

1998-10-28

Publication date

1999-02-01

ISSN

0049-3155

Language

  • en

Depositor

Dr Karel Van Der Waarde. Deposit date: 15 September 2020

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