type crimes
- pseudo small caps (p. 52)
- uneven spacing in between stacks of lowercase and capital letters (p. 52)
- squeezing a variant in a primary font to make it “fit” better in a group of lines (p. 54)
- using two of the same typefaces in a family that are too close in weight to flow with one another (p. 54)
- using two similar type styles to counterpoint ideas (p. 54)
- using quotation marks to carve out chunks of white space from the edge of the text (p.58)
- horizontal and vertical scaling of type (p. 38)
- reducing certain typefaces too small where they begin to look fragile (p. 41)
- minimal differences in type size within a design (p.42)
- pseudo italics/slanted letters (p. 48)
- tightly tracked text (p. 104)
- poorly shaped text block (p. 112)
- column full of holes (p. 112)
- bad rag – ugly wedge shape spoils ragged edge (p. 113)
- punctuation eats edge (p. 113)
- stacked lowercase (p. 120)
- too many signals (p. 127, 132)
- data prison (p. 204)
- two hyphens in place of em dash (p. 211)
- hyphen between numbers (p. 211)
- two spaces between sentences (p. 211)
(Example of #12)
(Example of #1)
(Example of #3)
(Example of #4)
(Example of #5)