Non-Designer’s Type Book, The, Second Edition

Rules and Size Can Be Effective

You don’t ever want to use the underline feature in your software, but you can often apply a rule, or line, for emphasis, as shown in the headline above (in most programs you can add the rule to your style sheet so it shows up automatically). The advantage to the rule is that you can make it as thick or thin as you like, and you can make it a different color, dotted, or dashed. You can position the rule so it doesn’t bump into the descenders, or, as you see in the running heads on each page, you can let it run through the descenders in exactly the position you choose.

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Of course you know you can emphasize type ...