……你这么问，但很难将其浓缩为区区几条规则（虽然这本书就是一次这样的尝试）。这里有几本关于 typography 的参考书：《Just My Type》——面向外行的一本有趣的入门书；Fred Smeijers 的《Counterpunch》——可能稍微有点枯燥，但我觉得引人入胜，讲的是活字的历史；《The Elements of Typographic Style》——可能有点偏干货，但信息量很大。这些书深入探讨了不同的字型……
…you ask, and it's hard to condense it into just a few rules (though this book is one such attempt). Here's some refs on typography: Just My Type - a fun introduction to the subject for the layperson Counterpunch by Fred Smeijers - perhaps a bit dry, but I found it engaging, a history of type The Elements of Typographic Style - perhaps a bit dry, but informative Those books go into detail about different types…
…written by pen; &c. So in some sense, some letters do start with skeletal forms, but: when letters were adapted to print, the punches (the "master copies") for letters were made by engraving and by using counterpunches (reusable tools that create particular shapes of negative space in the letter). And that's where metal (and digital) type comes from; pens and styli are more distant ancestors. [I'd highly recommend…
……你这么问，但很难将其浓缩为区区几条规则（虽然这本书就是一次这样的尝试）。这里有几本关于 typography 的参考书：《Just My Type》——面向外行的一本有趣的入门书；Fred Smeijers 的《Counterpunch》——可能稍微有点枯燥，但我觉得引人入胜，讲的是活字的历史；《The Elements of Typographic Style》——可能有点偏干货，但信息量很大。这些书深入探讨了不同的字型……
…you ask, and it's hard to condense it into just a few rules (though this book is one such attempt). Here's some refs on typography: Just My Type - a fun introduction to the subject for the layperson Counterpunch by Fred Smeijers - perhaps a bit dry, but I found it engaging, a history of type The Elements of Typographic Style - perhaps a bit dry, but informative Those books go into detail about different types…
……用钢笔写的；诸如此类。所以在某种意义上，有些字母确实是以骨架形态开端的，但是：当字母被移植到印刷术中时，字母的 punches（冲模，即“母模”）是通过雕刻以及使用 counterpunches（反冲模，一种可重复使用的工具，用来在字母内部冲出特定形状的负空间）制作出来的。这才是金属字模（以及数字字型）的真正源头；钢笔和铁笔只能算是更遥远的祖先。[我强烈推荐……
…written by pen; &c. So in some sense, some letters do start with skeletal forms, but: when letters were adapted to print, the punches (the "master copies") for letters were made by engraving and by using counterpunches (reusable tools that create particular shapes of negative space in the letter). And that's where metal (and digital) type comes from; pens and styli are more distant ancestors. [I'd highly recommend…