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A photo shoot in Denver in January, 2006, of RE/MAX CEO Margaret Kelly for the cover of LORE magazine. It was photographed at Consolidated Steel in Denver, by my brother, known on Facebook as Kapitan Von Klepper. The photographer is Phil Mumford, and the stylist, on the far right, is Roxanne Gould. I'm standing on the left, the nervous and attentive director. Sparks courtesy Consolidated Steel workers, who we paid with a six pack.

Typography is a strict discipline with centuries of honored rules and practices. Those who adhere to these rules take pride in the creative excellence which becomes the communications of society.

The web has not changed these rules. In fact, aside from designers and typographers having to use a limited palette of device fonts, web design embraces and furthers the standards established and maintained for centuries. CSS fully supports these protocols. This means that there is absolutely no excuse for bad typography on the web.

That said, I am compelled to do a second thorough study of The Elements of Typographic Style, an exhaustive but engaging work by Robert Binghurst, and comment on it with a view to its application to CSS.

Did you know, for example, that the practice of inserting two spaces between sentences is erroneous and not used in modern journalism? What your typing teacher taught you is wrong in that regard. I’ll explain why when I get to that part of the book.

(BTW: this photo has nothing to do with the information on this article. I  just like to post photos and images with my news.)