Pritchard, Tony (2016) Typography: Use Space Effectively. Computer Arts (258). pp. 70-73. ISSN 1360-5372
Type of Research: | Article |
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Creators: | Pritchard, Tony |
Description: | Paying attention to the detail in typography is extremely important for the professional designer. It is the job of the designer to ensure that adjustments are made to the spacing of letters, words and lines of type to create good typography. System preferences and software settings have been established to enable most people who are unconcerned about fine typography to set type effectively, but these settings cannot ensure that all text will be displayed to its optimum level. There is little in the way of a formula that can be applied to create good text setting, each situation must be judged individually. Letter spacing in a block of text can be adjusted to have an overall looser or tighter spacing, and this is known as tracking. Particular typefaces benefit from a tighter setting, others a looser approach. The amount of tracking used is to an extent down to personal preference -- most settings will require slight adjustments and can be quite subtle. |
Your affiliations with UAL: | Colleges > London College of Communication |
Date: | 13 October 2016 |
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Date Deposited: | 18 Feb 2019 10:23 |
Last Modified: | 18 Feb 2019 10:23 |
Item ID: | 13911 |
URI: | https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/13911 |
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