''The Elements of Typographic Style'' is a book on typography and style by Canadian

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Robert Bringhurst Robert Bringhurst Appointments to the Order of Canada (2013). (born 1946) is a CanadianWong (1999). poet, typographer and author. He has translated substantial works from Haida and Navajo and from classical Greek and Arabic. He wrote ''The El ...

. Originally published in 1992 by Hartley & Marks Publishers, it was revised in 1996, 2001 (v2.4), 2002 (v2.5), 2004 (v3.0), 2005 (v3.1), 2008 (v3.2), and 2012 (v4.0). A history and guide to

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, it has been praised by

Hermann Zapf Hermann Zapf (; 8 November 1918 – 4 June 2015) was a German type designer and calligrapher who lived in Darmstadt, Germany. He was married to the calligrapher and typeface designer Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse. Typefaces he designed include ...

, who said "I wish to see this book become the Typographers' Bible."

Jonathan Hoefler Jonathan Hoefler (; born 1970) is an American type designer. Hoefler founded the Hoefler Type Foundry in 1989, a type foundry in New York. Early life Jonathan Hoefler was born on August 22, 1970, in New York City to Doreen Benjamin and Char ...

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Tobias Frere-Jones Tobias Frere-Jones (born Tobias Edgar Mallory Jones, August 28, 1970) is an American type designer who works in New York City. He operates the company Frere-Jones Type and teaches typeface design at the Yale School of Art MFA program. Among his t ...

consider it "the finest book ever written about typography," according to the FAQ section of their type foundry's website. Because of its status as a respected and frequently cited resource, typographers and designers often refer to it simply as ''Bringhurst''. The title alludes to ''

The Elements of Style ''The Elements of Style'' (also called ''Strunk & White)'' is a style guide for formal grammar used in American English writing. The first publishing was written by William Strunk Jr. in 1918, and published by Harcourt in 1920, comprising eight ...

'', the classic guide to writing by Strunk and

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.Foreword to version 3.1, p. 9,

Editions

* First edition: Hartley & Marks Publishers, 1992, 254pp, (hardcover) * Second edition: Hartley & Marks Publishers, 1996, 352pp, (hardcover), (paperback) * Third edition: Hartley & Marks Publishers, 2005, (hardcover), (paperback) * Fourth edition: Hartley & Marks Publishers, 2012, (hardcover), (paperback)

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External links

''The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web''
– an unaffiliated webpage applying the same principles to web typography
''A Classic Thesis Style – An Homage to The Elements of Typographic Style''
–

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