Simply present the most important ideas, sentences, and paragraphs in an article or book in boldface print! This single innovation, widely applied, would help all of us who must absorb vast vistas of print information to do so more efficiently and with less effort.
In addition to boldface, italics, underlining, and a printed version of "highlighting" could be used to emphasize words and passages— whatever best fits the publication and the material.
Well-done typographic emphasis would assist both skimming an article or book (after which the piece may or may not be read in its entirety) and reviewing it at later times. Emphasized sentences and paragraphs in the text would pace important information in its context, which would be far more useful than the same ideas presented in isolated boxes and banners, a practice of recent years.
Widespread adoption of typographically emphasized main points in magazines, newspapers, and books would ...
