Paul Felton: «The ten Commandments» | «Οι Δέκα Εντολές της Τυπογραφίας»

[ΕΝ] Leaving behind the Easter holidays, always come in my mind some of the cliché of those days. The most striking of all is the famous television series by Franco Zeffirelli, "Jesus of Nazareth", but also others in this style or with similar themes, such as "Peter and Paul", "Barabbas" and of course "The ten commandments". While most of us are familiar with the content of the ten commandments, which according to tradition, God gave to Moses, we designers have our own reference manual, commands and rules about what else? Typography! This is a truly inspiring and humorous book by Paul Felton whose theme is not only the rules of typography and their implementation but also how these rules, presented in a unique mastery by the author, can be ignored without harming the readability and clarity of the text. Representative of the style of the book and the author's humor is the introduction (in free translation from the Greek edition): "In t...