Chapter 4. Getting the Lead Out
LEADING (PRONOUNCED “LEDDING”) is the space between the lines of type. In the days of hot metal typesetting this space was created by inserting thin strips of lead between the lines. Lines of type without these strips of lead were—and still are—referred to as “set solid.” Leading plays a big part in the readability of your text. All body text is made more readable by a positive amount of leading (a leading value greater than the point size of the type). Headlines and display type, on the other hand, may benefit from negative leading (a leading value less than the point size of the type).
InDesign regards leading as a character level format (as opposed to a paragraph format in QuarkXPress). Leading can be applied ...
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