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A Pocket Guide to Combining Typefaces

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We’ve never had it so good when it comes to the sheer range of typographic choices available to us when designing for the web. Terrifying, isn’t it?

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If typefaces were fine wines, Tim Brown would be a master sommelier, ready to teach you the proper pairings that will make your design a thing of harmonious wonderment, rather than a tasteless clash of fugly. And in A Pocket Guide to Combining Typefaces he does just that.

If you’re interested in getting the best out of your typographic pairings — and frankly, why would’t you be? — this makes for a quick read that will nevertheless save you countless late night furrowed brow moments of existential dread. That means we like it.

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Michael Pick

Writer, reader, and Director of Content Design at WordPress.com.

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