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- HumanMale
Doing some page layouts for a magazine. I've noticed there are very few (practically none) who use justification – 90% just use left alignment. Any reason for this?
- kelpie0
its easier to read text in columns that are left aligned.
- Crouwel0
justification is gonna hurt your eyes.
try and see what is better.
- islandbridge0
yes ... and often people dont know how to do a proper justification and hyphenation. But if you chose to do justification then just dont even think about touching the letter spacing settings, because that fucks up the readability big time...
- HumanMale0
Cheers guys, that's good advice. I've experimented, and I think I'm gonna stick with left-aligned.
While we are on the subject, anyone got any links to good examples/grids etc ;)
- Crouwel0
clerk is just a living database, not?
;)
- Baskerville0
lef aligned text is easier to layout. You just click 'no hyphenation' which is easy for designers.
It's true that not many people know how to do proper H&Js. It can look good and not be hard to read if done properly.
If you use left aligned text be sure to check your 'ragging' This basically consists of bring small words such as 'to' or 'as' down from the end of a line to the next line. Your aim is to get a consitent 'in and out' look to the right side of the collumn.
The main reason for using justified text is to save space. In newspapers it save loads of space.
Most magazine don't need to save that much space (in fact normally the opposite!) so they use left aligned text.For good grids check out the obvious Joseph Muller Brockmann
or rober bringhust, Jan Tschichold.
- kelpie0
where would one learn to do proper H&J's Mr Baskerville?
- clerk0
yeah but don't tell anyone janne.
;)