Black vs. white. Designing type is nothing more and nothing less than harmonizing black and white shapes. Black can't exist without white, and white can't exist without black. Black, the shape of a letter. White, the space in or in between letters. The amount of white inside a character defines the amount of white in between two characters.

　　黑與白

　　字體的設計，莫過于調整黑白空間的和諧。黑不能離開白而獨立存在，白也是一樣。黑，是字符的形體。白，是字符內(nèi)部和字符之間的白色空間。字符內(nèi)部白空間的大小，決定著兩個字符之間白空間的大小。

　　As it is impossible to create a very black character with a big (white) counter form, a black typeface will always have smaller counters than a light typeface. Hence it follows that there is less space in between the characters (see drawing). A light typeface has much bigger counters. The space in between two letters has to be in proportion. As a consequence there is more white space in between light letters than in between black letters.

　　你永遠不可能設計出一種筆畫極其粗重而同時字懷（counter，字符內(nèi)部包圍的白空間）又很大的的粗黑體。一個粗黑體，其字懷永遠要小于一個細線體，因而粗黑體的字符間距也一定要比細線體的小（如圖）。細線體的字懷很大，其字符間距也必須相應的大，所以細線體的字符之間就需要比粗黑體更大的白空間。

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　　注意字符內(nèi)部和外部的白空間