Christina Wodtke’s Elements of Style for Designers is a useful reminder of things one might choose to do, or not, drawn directly from Strunk and White’s ave atque vale list of admonishments. As I read through the list, I reflected wincingly that I regularly and wilfully violate most of those injunctions for habits that lead to Good Writing, as many antiprescritivist postings at Language Log suggest I may, if I like.