applying-practical-typographylisted

Applies and reviews professional typography rules based on Butterick's Practical Typography. Covers characters and symbols (curly quotes, dashes, ellipses, nonbreaking spaces), text formatting (bold/italic, caps, kerning, letterspacing, color), body text settings (point size, line spacing, line length, indents, hyphenation), page layout (margins, headings, tables, lists, columns), font selection (professional vs system fonts, mixing, alternate figures), and document-specific guidance (emails, presentations, résumés, research papers, business cards, letterhead, websites). Use when generating or reviewing text for documents, web pages, presentations, or any formatted output, when the user asks about typography rules, when checking for common typography mistakes (straight quotes, double spaces, bad fonts, improper dashes), or when setting up document styles and layouts.
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# Applying Practical Typography Prioritize readability over aesthetics. Choose what reinforces the meaning of the text, not what looks prettiest in isolation. ## Workflow: Applying typography rules 1. **Set up body text first.** Choose font, point size (10–12pt print, 15–25px web), line spacing (120–145%), and line length (45–90 chars). 2. **Use correct characters.** Curly quotes (not straight), proper dashes (not hyphens), real ellipses, proper symbols (©, ™, ×). 3. **Format with restraint.** Bold or italic (not both). No underlining in print. All caps only for short runs, with 5–12% extra letterspacing. One exclamation point per document. One space between sentences. 4. **Configure layout.** Margins large enough for proper line length. Headings: max 3 levels, bold preferred, space above/below for emphasis. First-line indents or paragraph spacing (not both). 5. **Use styles.** Define paragraph and character styles for consistency and efficient global changes. ## Workflow: Reviewing text for typography issues Check for these common problems (in priority order): 1. **Straight quotes** instead of curly quotes or apostrophes. 2. **Double spaces** between sentences. 3. **Hyphens** used where en dashes (ranges, pairs) or em dashes (breaks) belong. 4. **Bad fonts** — Arial, Comic Sans, Papyrus, Copperplate, Times New Roman. 5. **Underlining** used for emphasis (print context). 6. **Missing letterspacing** on all caps or small caps text. 7. **Line lengt