Best of Type--Worst of Type

From a production standpoint, desktop typography is a vast improvement over phototypesetting. No more stinking chemistry or expensive dedicated systems! Also, the ability to fine tune, noodle, and tweak layouts is an immensely satisfying luxury, compared to the typographic systems of the '70s and '80s.

King, Liana. NALC (1997). Design>Typography>History

Typography Today

We all see it in advertisements and publications--potentially worthy designed pieces that suffer from a lack of good typography. Text matter is handled with little attention to hyphenation, line breaks, paragraph endings, kerning, and word spacing. Sometimes even headlines catch your attention with their bad spacing or straight quote marks.

Kjolby, Bent. NALC (1997). Design>Typography