The optimal line length for your body text is considered to be 45-60 characters per line. It shouldn’t merely be your design that dictates the width of your text, it should also be a matter of legibility. Having the right amount of characters on each line is key to the readability of your text. If you are thinking about justifying text you must take in all the followingĪnd then finally adjust the Hyphenation and Justification Rules But the trend over the past couple of decades has been to allow the natural spacing of flush left text to dominate, losing the structured look of the "block" of text and maximizing readability.
If you are using 12 point type, the minimum line length you should try to justify is 24 picas (6 picas = 1 inch).įor many years, justified type reigned supreme as the way to set most text. One simple rule for determining whiter a line length is "long enough" to justify is this: The line length in picas should be twice the point size of the type. * Please make an example of this in your workbook) The shorter the line length in relation to the size of the type, the worse this problem becomes because there are fewer words between which to add or delete space. This irregularity is visually disturbing and interrupts reading. The greatest problem with justified text, both in terms of readability and aesthetics, is the uneven word spacing and letter spacing: some lines have extra spacing, some less. Some programs let you specify the minimum and maximum amounts the spacing can adjust, but the computer will override your specifications if necessary. Text When you justify text, the computer forces the lines to extend to a certain length by adding or deleting space between the words, and sometimes between the letters. And avoid ending lines with the words: the, of, at, a, by. Avoid ending consecutive lines with the same word. Fortunately, in flush left alignments you can easily make type corrections and adjust lines, often without effecting the rest of the text.īecause you can control where lines end you can try to avoid beginning consecutive lines with the same word. Otherwise when you edit the text, change the type size or column width, alter the layout in any way, you will ed up with tab spaces, empty spaces or line breaks in the middle of your sentences. If you bump (soft return) words down, be sure to do it as the last south in your final layout. requires less time, attention, and tweaking from the designer to make it look good). Generally type set left-aligned is easier to work with (i.e. May require extra attention to hyphenation to keep right margin from being too ragged. The ragged right edge adds an element of white space. Often considered more informal, friendlier than justified text. And as you read, your key can quickly find the beginning of the next line. Left aligned text uses the optimum word spacing and letter spacing that the designer built into the font, and the spacing is very consistent so you do not have to struggle through the words at all. Speaking just in terms of alignment, left aligned (Flush Left, Ragged Right) text is the most readable.
Someone that wants to read it? Someone that has to read it? As a designer, if you are only asked to make the text readable on the page the following questions should be asked… A typeface’s color is determined by stroke width, x-height, character width and serif styles. In typography, color can also describe the balance between black and white on the page of text. Other typographic factors that affect readability include font choice, point size, kerning, tracking, line length, leading, and justification. Readability is the ease with which a reader can recognize words, sentences, and paragraphs. Legibility is different from readability.
In general, typefaces that are true to the basic letterforms are more legible than typefaces that have been condensed, expanded, embellished, or abstracted. Sometimes legibility is simply a matter of type size more often, however, it is a matter of typeface design. That is, it should be read without effort. Legibility is the concern of the typographer to select a typeface with appropriate clarity of design for the intended use at the intended size. Package files (keeps everything together) Tip for body text do not keep it at 12pt! Change it to 9pt body text with 12pt leading. Window Type & Table -> Character, Paragraph.īody Text, Headline, Subhead, Caption, Page Numbers (folios), Body Text
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