In Ch. 2 i really like the statement by Dieter Rams. "To me good design means as little design as possible. Simple is better than complicated. Quiet is better then loud. Unobtrusive is better than exciting. Small is better than large. Light is better than heavy. Plain is better than coloured. Harmony is better than divergency. Being well balanced is better than being exalted. Continuity is better than change. Sparse is better than profuse. Neutral is better than aggressive. The obvious is better than aggressive. The obvious is better than that which must be sought. Few elements are better than many. A system is better than single elements." I feel the same way about his statement. I like simple clean designs much better than cramped busy designs.
For the Ch. 3 reading I had never heard of deciding column spacing by making them between 1.5 and 2 times the width of the entire lower case alphabet of the font you are using.
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