Ben Leventhal, co-founder of Eater, wrote a Medium article entitled “The 9 Habits of Highly Effective Restaurants.” Speaking of which, do we italicize Medium article titles? Use quotes? I’m going to go with vertical bars, a.k.a. pipes. In |The 9 Habits of Highly Effective Restaurants| Ben identified

> Shibumi has to do with great refinement underlying commonplace appearances. It is a statement so correct that it does not have to be bold, so poignant it does not have to be pretty, so true it does not have to be real. —Shibumi, by Trevanian (Writers: There’s nothing

This article first appeared in modified form on the CreativeLive blog [http://blog.creativelive.com/lessons-niche-market-from-creator-of-italics/]. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I was reading the wonderful show business biography Act One [https://smile.amazon.com/Act-One-Autobiography-Moss-Hart/dp/1250050898/], by the legendary playwright Moss Hart, when the following passage struck me: > It is taken

This article first appeared in modified form on the CreativeLive blog [http://blog.creativelive.com/lessons-niche-market-from-creator-of-italics/]. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- First use of italics by Aldus ManutiusA piece in the New York Times alerted me to a tribute to the Renaissance printer Aldus Manutius on display at New York City’s posh Grolier