UNDERSTANDING SPACING Leading Tracking Kerning Em Space En Space Decimal Tab Center Tab Hanging Indent Widow Source: Digital Desktop Publishing--Understanding Spacing Digital Communications I Unit 3 Layout_Understanding Spacing

Source: Digital Desktop Publishing--Understanding Spacing Tracking Space between letters determined by software and designer Software function that allows additional space between each letter Spacing between words, phrases, or extended blocks of text. Source: Digital Desktop Publishing--Understanding Spacing

Source: Digital Desktop Publishing--Understanding Spacing Kerning Pairs Letters that look better if they are placed closer than most others Examples: T, V, W, and Y Desktop publishing software can automatically kern Kerning Spacing of letters to make them appear closer together Source: Digital Desktop Publishing--Understanding Spacing

Source: Digital Desktop Publishing--Understanding Spacing Leading Spacing between lines of text within the same paragraph Comes from time when type was set with metal and strips of lead were placed between each line Amount of leading is based on size of font Measured from baseline to baseline Most leading set to 120% of font size Spacing between paragraphs is set independently of the space within lines of a paragraph Source: Digital Desktop Publishing--Understanding Spacing

Source: Digital Desktop Publishing--Understanding Spacing Em/En Spacing M N Used as white objects to separate words Em Space Proportional to point size of each typeface Equivalent to the width of the capital letter “M” of each typeface En Space Approximately size of capital letter “N” Half the width of an em space Often used as measurement of space Source: Digital Desktop Publishing--Understanding Spacing

Source: Digital Desktop Publishing--Understanding Spacing Spacing Conventions Source: Digital Desktop Publishing--Understanding Spacing

Source: Digital Desktop Publishing--Understanding Spacing Punctuation . , ? “ With typewriters (monospace fonts) it was necessary to space twice at the end of a sentence for a visual break With computers (proportional fonts) spacing is determined by letters and their placement No longer necessary to space twice after punctuation at the end of the sentence or colons Source: Digital Desktop Publishing--Understanding Spacing

Source: Digital Desktop Publishing--Understanding Spacing Indents Typists used five spaces for paragraph indentions Desktop Publishing Indenting no longer necessary If indenting is chosen, one or two em spaces is used (approximately .25 of an inch) Source: Digital Desktop Publishing--Understanding Spacing

Source: Digital Desktop Publishing--Understanding Spacing Hanging Indents First line “hangs out” from the other lines in the paragraph Source: Digital Desktop Publishing--Understanding Spacing

Source: Digital Desktop Publishing--Understanding Spacing Tabs Left tab Standard means of setting tabs Center tab Aligns text on either side of tab stop Right tab Places the last letter of the line at the point of the tab Used for page numbers Decimal tab Aligns figures so that they line up with the decimal, regardless of how many numbers there are Source: Digital Desktop Publishing--Understanding Spacing

Tabs Notice the difference in where the decimal point is located. Source: Digital Desktop Publishing--Understanding Spacing

Source: Digital Desktop Publishing--Understanding Spacing Widows and Orphans Widow First line of a paragraph that appears at the bottom of a column or page Should keep at least two—preferably three—lines together Orphan Single sentences or parts of a sentence that appear alone at the top of a new column or page Source: Digital Desktop Publishing--Understanding Spacing

Source: Digital Desktop Publishing--Understanding Spacing Widows and Orphans orphan widow Source: Digital Desktop Publishing--Understanding Spacing