Spacing

The fourth booklet in the E. B. Eddy series on type and paper, Spacing, explores the essential role of visual space in typography. Carl Dair demonstrates that letters cannot exist without the space around them – and that space is just as crucial to their form as stems and strokes. For Dair, space not only shapes individual letters but also determines how they come together to form meaningful, readable patterns. This booklet expands on the ideas introduced in ‘It Happens in Space’, a chapter from his recently published book Design with Type.