Typography

Good typography reinforces the meaning of the text and conserves the reader's attention. Start with body text, but never apply body-text rules to every role. Treat Practical Typography as a benchmark, not a compliance standard. Rule IDs point to provenance.md, which distinguishes source guidance (PT), project choices (DEVIATION), and current external requirements (CURRENT).

Load only what the task needs [ROUTE-001]

• Character substitutions, punctuation, whitespace, emphasis, or literal text: composition.md
• Paragraphs, headings, lists, quotations, tables, styles, pagination, columns, or grids: layout.md
• Font selection, pairing, glyphs, features, or licensing: fonts.md
• Websites, responsive measure, actual font use, fallbacks, or accessibility: web.md
• Print, slides, email, resumes, tables of numbers, or PDF delivery: media.md
• Non-English, non-Latin, bidirectional, or mixed-script text: international.md
• Authority, scope, freshness, and evaluation coverage for a rule: provenance.md

Do not load every reference by default. A PDF containing Arabic code examples, for example, needs media.md, international.md, and the literal-text section of composition.md; a simple English print paragraph does not need web.md.

Precedence

Apply this order whenever recommendations conflict [CORE-002]: