I read a text and then I see how the author uses emphasis and usually they do this with changing the emphatic word into bold — probably because emphatic sound like fat and the bold letters have more flesh on their bones. Every time my mind goes “no no no!” and I try to change it into italics because bold means there’s this weight shift and the eyes focus and never really leave the bold area. Three lines bellow and the eyes still move upwards.

I sigh and often say things like this to myself: “don’t they know this? Don’t people read typography books about these sort of things?” These questions are most often hindsight rhetorical because no, most people don’t do that and they don’t care. And I sound both like an ass and a loon.

“But I care,” I whisper, “even if I’m alone in doing that.”

A while ago, middle of the summer, I tried to find “Manual.” I had my printed version of course but that one was somewhere I was not, it was at home. Somewhere. I’m not an organized person, I admit that. I googled the Internet and every link it turned up was dead. But now! I should have known that a digital pack-rat such as Joshua would have saved it on his server.

It’s a bit old now, but the writings still fine. It has How to Make Things Easier for Everyone by Leslie and we all know there is far too little traces of her left outside of Wayback. And, this was why I tried to find it then, it has the rules of Cricket. Sort of. They might not be entirely accurate, because I’m more and more sure that Cricket is in reality based on Nomic. Someone is bound to have changed them by now. Several times.