Detail in typography

An attractive, interesting layout can certainly attract and please the reader ; but when the details are not good, reading requires more effort and any pleasure is short-lived. Detail in typography is a concise and close-up view of the subject - letters, words, the line, and the space around the elements - and it discusses what is essential for the legibility of the text. Yet this is more than a guide to correct typography. How is it, Hochuli asks, that text can be set perfectly and yet look insufferably dull ? Answers may be found here, not least in the way the book itself has been set and produced.