Typography Essentials

THE LETTER21 Thinking like a typesetter

ALL TOO OFTEN, in today’s production-streamlined world, designers are also required to be editors and typesetters. So they must be extra vigilant about rooting out double spaces, especially after periods (these introduce unsightly gaps in the text), the use of spaces instead of tabs, extra tabs, and the incorrect use of the hyphen, en dash, and em dash (the use of the double hyphen as a substitute for the em dash is an all-too-common occurrence). Pesky “invisible” or “hidden” characters like paragraph returns, soft returns, and the like can cause untold misery if not discovered before style sheets are applied.

ProjectHotHouse exhibition catalog

CompanyStudio of ME/AT

Art DirectorLucille Tenazas

Designer ...