ing the irregular adjuncts before mentioned, that have to be set by many compositors. Without precise instruction, each compositor will set irregular divisions of a new book to suit his own notions of propriety. One may use a larger and another a smaller type, and perhaps they will be of different faces and in different forms of indention.
THE DETERMINATION OF SIZE OF TYPE
This neglect to provide for uniformity in minor details is damaging to the appearance of a book. To have the relative value of each part easily discerned, the book of many parts should be planned before copy is given to the compositors, so that each part may be set in a proper size of type and with uniformity of style. It is understood by all parties that the text should be set in the larger and the adjuncts in smaller sizes of type, and that the size selected for each different part should be so graduated that the reader can determine at a glance its relative value, and that parts of equal importance should be, for the most part, of similar size and style of type.[1]
- ↑ This suggestion should not be construed as an insistence on absolute uniformity. There are tables of figures and words which must appear on predetermined pages, and six-point may be compulsory for one and eight-point for another to enable the compositor to get them in on that page. There are extracts that should be set in black-letter, and old letters that do not properly show old-style mannerisms unless they appear in old-style type, with the capitals, italic, and abbreviations of the original.
