June 2018
Beginner
353 pages
11h 25m
English
Maybe it’s a sign of our shortening attention spans, but these days we seem to want more of our information in quickly digestible points. And then there’s our need to quantify; people love lists. The top ten this, the 100 greatest that, 12-step programs, 50 ways to leave your lover, and so on. The popularity of the form has given rise to a new term: the “listicle.” Although the mechanics of creating bullets and number lists are simple enough, both types of list raise certain design issues, and both are prone to quirky problems.
Before we dig deeper, here are the basics. Bullet and number lists are formatted with automated hanging indents, with either a bullet character or the number as the ...
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