Creative Indents

Indenting the first line of every paragraph is a habit most of us acquired in grammar school. However, for those daring souls who have always insisted on coloring outside the lines, it’s time to consider using a different style paragraph indent. There are more options than you might have realized!

Strizver, Ilene. Upper and lowercase Magazine (2001). Design>Typography>Style Guides>Grammar

Diggin’ It?!  

The buried treasures of typography: comprising the Style Guide of the Type Club of Toronto, with illustrations, and an Expert Font Guide.

Shinn, Nick. ShinnType (2001). Design>Typography>Style Guides

Typographic Dimensions and Conventional Wisdom: A Discrepancy?    

Typographic guidelines are based on a combination of legibility research and personal experience. Both of these approaches seem to ignore actual documents as a source of information. An inventory of the typographic dimensions of existing texts in different genres is required to investigate and discusscurrent typographic guidelines. In this study, three dimensions - x-height,linelength and linespace - of 106 brochures, 114 scientific journals and 110 novels were measured. The results show that the design of these documents does not reflect current typographic guidelines. The results also show that document developers specify the x-height, line length and linespace within clear boundaries andthat these boundaries differ per genre. There are preferences within these boundaries and these might be based on conventional wisdom.

van der Waarde, Karel. Technical Communication Online (1999). Design>Typography>Style Guides