From the course: The 33 Laws of Typography

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04 Enforce a consistent style within a document

04 Enforce a consistent style within a document

From the course: The 33 Laws of Typography

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04 Enforce a consistent style within a document

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- Law four, Enforce Consistent Style Within a document. When you're designing documents you want to maintain visual consistency between similar elements. And some of these elements that may appear in your document would include chapter titles, headings sub-headings, body text, image captions, page headers, and page footers. You want to pick a typographic style for each of these elements and then enforce that style throughout your document. Your goal is for all similar elements to be formatted consistently. So this means that all body text should be formatted to look the same. All captions should be formatted to look the same. All headings, sub-headings, page headers, and page footers should all be formatted consistently throughout your document. So lets take a look at what happens when this isn't true. This is a page where consistent styles have not been applied. And you can see if we take a look at the image captions for instance, in this caption, the text is italicized and it's…

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