A normal word space follows the last period in the string.Ģ.1.6 Letterspace all strings of capitals and small caps, and all long strings of digitsĪcronyms such as CIA and PLO are frequent in some texts. Prillwitz need hair spaces, thin spaces or no spaces at all after the intermediary periods.
For multiple column work, a better average is 40 to 50 characters.Ģ.1.5 Add little or no space within strings of initials The 66-character line (counting both letters and spaces) is widely regarded as ideal. None is independent of the others.Īnything from 45 to 75 characters is widely regarded as a satisfactory length of line for a single-column page set in a serifed text face in a text size.
And color depends on four things: the design of the type, the spacing between the letters and the spacing between the words, and the spacing between the lines. Once the demands of legibility and logical order are satisfied, evenness of color is the typographer’s normal aim. This has nothing to do with red or green ink it refers only to the darkness or blackness of the letterforms in mass. After long practice, their work took on such an even, flexible texture that they called the written page a textus, cloth.Īnother ancient metaphor: the density of the texture in a written or typeset page is called its color. The scribes made this old and audible abstraction into a new and visible fact. Important: treat ALL details correctly as the text describes…Įxcerpts from: The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert BringhurstĪn ancient metaphor: thought is a thread and the raconteur is a spinner of yarns – but the true storyteller, the poet is a weaver. Part Two: Read and then, typeset a text below using tabs in Indesign
CALCULATE LETTERSPACE FULL
2.1.1 Define the word space to suit the size and natural letterfit of the fontĢ.1.3 Set ragged if ragged setting suits the text and pageĢ.1.4 Use a single word space between sentencesĢ.1.5 Add little or no space within strings of initialsĢ.1.6 Letterspace all strings of capitals and small caps, and all long strings of digitsĢ.1.7 Don’t letterspace the lower case without a reasonĢ.1.8 Kern consistently and modestly or not at allĢ.1.9 Don’t alter the widths or shapes of letters without causeĢ.1.10 Don’t stretch the space until it breaksĢ.2.1 Choose a basic leading that suits the typeface, text and measureĢ.2.2 Add and delete vertical space in measured intervalsĢ.3.2 In continuous text mark all paragraphs after the first with an indent of at least one enĢ.3.3 Add extra lead before and after block quotationsĢ.4 Etiquette of Hyphenation & PaginationĢ.4.1 At hyphenated line-ends, leave at least two characters behind and take at least three forwardĢ.4.3 Avoid more than three consecutive hyphenated linesĢ.4.5 Hyphenate according to the conventions of the languageĢ.4.6 Link short numerical and mathematical expressions with hard spacesĢ.4.8 Never begin a page with the last line of a multi-line paragraphģ.2.1 Use titling figures with full caps, and text figures in all other circumstances
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