Tolle Lege! Designing Readable Bibles With Digital Typography (BibleTech 2015)
Channel: Sympolymathesy by Chris Krycho
Date: 2015-07-06

A talk delivered at BibleTech2015.
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The Bible has always been a challenging text to display, whether copied by hand or printed on a Gutenberg press, and the task has only grown more complicated in the era of digital text. The challenges are not insurmountable, though. We have the tools to solve them: the principles of good typography, especially careful page design and the deliberate choice and skillful use of appropriate typefaces (fonts). When we apply those principles to the Scriptures—whether in an app or on the web—we can provide people with digital Bibles that are both readable and beautiful.