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Drowning the Crystal Goblet | Butterick’s Practical Typography

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Drowning the Crystal Goblet | Butterick’s Practical Typography Drowning the Crystal Goblet Should typography aspire to be invisible, like the proverbial crystal goblet? Of course not. As the ben­e­fits of good de­sign have got­ten more at­ten­tion in re­cent years, it’s be­come trendy to de­clare that the best de­sign ought to be “in­vis­i­ble”, es­pe­cially typography. This line of think­ing goes back at least as far as Beat­rice Warde’s 1932 es­say “The Crys­tal Gob­let (or Print­ing Should Be In­vis­i­ble)”, which of­fers the epony­mous ves­sel as a metaphor for ty­pog­ra­phy. Warde was a c

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