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Chapter 7: Typography

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Nonsquare Design Space

As mentioned in the previous section, there are some fonts whose design space is not

square, in particular those fonts that are used for printing newspapers. It is also possible,

using today’s page-layout systems, to articially scale square designs so that they t in a

nonsquare design space, but the results from such an operation are far from being aes-

thetically pleasing.

Table 7-5 provides an example of text that was set using a font with a square design space,

using Morisawa’s A-OTF  Pr6N L-KL (RyuminPr6N-Light) typeface design,

and one set with a nonsquare design space, using Morisawa’s A-OTF  Pro

L (MNewsMPro-Light) typeface design.

Newspaper publishers prefer to use these “compressed” typeface designs because they can

t more text in the same amount of space. I included the generic line-drawing characters

because they illustrate that simple scaling is not used to create these designs—they are

designed in a nonsquare design space. As clearly specied on Morisawa’s website, their A-

OTF  Pro L (MNewsMPro-Light) typeface design is set in a 1000×800 de-

sign space, but because the font itself is implemented using