July 2009
Beginner
208 pages
5h 24m
English
ALIGNMENT OF THE LEFT AND RIGHT SIDES of the column, known as justified type, imparts a cool, clean, considered look to the text. It is a more formal and even a more authoritative look, so this convention is highly favored for books and newspapers but less so for magazines and other documents, which may use a mix of justified and unjustified type within their pages to indicate different types of content formats. If not well planned and tailored during editing, justified type has the potential to be “gappy” between words, as typesetting software adjusts the word spaces to achieve justification (See pages 118–119, Hyphenation and Justification.) If there are too few words in a column, there may not be sufficient ...
Read now
Unlock full access