Hyphen Press makes the best type­set and thought­ful­ly bound books on type. Some of their stuff is for the ultra-mega type nerd, but no mat­ter how seem­ing­ly unap­proach­able one of their books may seem, once you start read­ing, you will be hooked.

Detail in Typog­ra­phy is not one of those won­der­ful­ly dense works but a nice short read of things you may already know but need remind­ing of from time to time.

For instance, one invalu­able bit of advice is a way to set acronyms with faces lack­ing small caps. With most faces, acronyms set in all caps can be just plain ugly. Jost sug­gests set­ting the cap string in all caps but reduced in size by a half or one point. The weight of the let­ters won’t be iden­ti­cal to the line, but it’s hard­ly notice­able. I do this now and in many cas­es it makes the line appear smoother than when using small caps.

Detail in Typog­ra­phy
Designed by Jost Hochuli, St.Gallen
Type­set and made into pages by Peter Renn, St.Gallen, in QuarkX­Press
Set in Adobe Min­ion, with Futu­ra Bold
Made in Switzer­land: Print­ed by Heer Druck AG, Sul­gen, and bound by Buch­binderei Burkhardt AG, Mön­chal­torf
Sewn & flapped paper­back
210 × 125 mm
64 pages
Pub­lished 2008.06.18 by Hyphen Press, Lon­don

ISBN 0–907259-34–0
ISBN13 978–0‑907259–34‑3