Graphics Reference
In-Depth Information
Structure and Optics
Issues Related to Style
Mechanics of Text
Texture and Space
Type as Information
How Color Changes Type
A comparison of character count for a selection of type-faces, at varying sizes, is shown set on the
same paragraph width. As with all typographic “rules,” there is a range to what is comfortable for
the average reader. Given a fifty-to eighty-character comfort range, it is easy to see that a para-
graph must widen as the type size increases and narrow as it decreases, to maintain the optimal
number of characters on a line.
