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Visual alignment (also called optical aligment)

means exactly that: using that high-tech tool,

the human eye, to line up your text until it

looks right.

Vertical alignment

Many computer users are surprised to dis-

cover that using numerically consient leading

(or line spacing) does not assure visually consis-

tent vertical spacing between lines of type. This

is typically an issue when setting three or more

lines of display type.

For example, if a line of type is all caps, it has

no descenders. This creates more white space

below it. An all caps line also has a taller height

than lines with moly lowercase charaers, cre-

ating less white space above it. This is a perfe

example of the need for visual alignment: adju

the spacing above and below all cap lines until it

looks right, regardless of what the numbers say.

Similarly, in cases where lines with lots

of ascenders and/or descenders are preceded

or followed by lines with few or no ascenders

and descenders, the lines will appear to have

varying spacing even if the leading is exaly the

same. Use visual alignment to adju the leading

between the lines until they look equidiant

from each other.

Horizontal alignment

Visually “o” horizontal alignment can

happen in both text and display type and is

mo easily apparent in ﬂush left, ﬂush right

or juiﬁed copy. Why? Your computer aligns

charaers (including punuation, ﬁgures and

symbols) by the edge of the charaer plus its

sidebearing (that’s the built-in space that sur-

rounds a letter and is aually part of its design).

The spacing of certain charaers, such as a

cap T or A or the numeral 1, as well as periods,

commas, aporophes, dashes and quotations

marks, create a visual hole or indentation in the

beginning or end of a line relative to the charac-

ters above and below.

This problem is mo noticeable in larger

settings such as headlines, subheads and ini-

tial letters. To solve it, move the line in or out

until it visually aligns. (Depending upon your

software, there are various ways to do this.) It’s

helpful to look at your text from a slight dis-

tance when correing problems, since it can be

difﬁcult to know how much of an adjument

is enough. When in doubt, less is more. Don’t

try to adju small-sized type or large blocks of

text; it’s too time-consuming and the results are

barely visible at text sizes.

NOTE: On screen, italic text almo never

seems to align horizontally, especially when

centered. This is usually an optical illusion, so

beware of making too many adjuments here

(if any at all!), or you will wind up with all of

your copy askew!

Setting type on your computer makes it a

no-brainer to create typography with techni-

cally consient spacing, but always, always,

always use your eyes as the ﬁnal arbiter of good

alignment.

Designers are used to being detail-oriented

and mathematically precise, nudging things a

point this way and a pixel that way until tech-

nical perfeion is achieved. However, when

it comes to typographic alignment, the math-

ematical approach to design doesn’t apply: it’s

all in the eye of the beholder. 0

Keep your receipts:

The next time you buy some-

thing online, don’t bother to jot

down the conﬁrmation on an

easy-to-lose sticky note. In OSX

10.4, press Command-P when

the site displays the receipt. In

the Print dialog box that appears, click on PDF

and select Save PDF to Web Receipts Folder

from the drop down menu. OS X creates a PDF

of your receipt and saves it in your user folder/

Documents/Web Receipts.

–Joe Kissel

Shrink PDFs with Preview:

Some PDF ﬁles – particularly those with graphics

– can be too big to send via e-mail or download

over a dial-up connection. Sure, you can buy a

tool that shrinks PDFs, but Preview 3 may be all

you’ll need.

Open a PDF in Preview and choose File/save

as. In the Save dialog box, give the file a new

name. Then choose Reduce File Size from the

Quartz Filter pop-up menu and click on Save.

When I exported a photo-heavy calendar as

a PDF file from iPhoto, Preview reduced its size

from 10.4 MB to an e-mail-friendly 828K.

Some caveats: Reduced files may not display

or print as clearly as the originals, bookmarks

are lost, and PDFs that have already been opti-

mized or that are quite small may grow in size.

But Preview makes tasks such as slimming an

iPhoto book layout before sending it to a relative

easy and free. –Adam C. Engst

Don’t miss Adam’s presentation at our

October meeting!

The text on the left is set in a consistent 21/23, but the middle lines look

too tight. When the leading on the right is adjusted to 21/22, 21/27 and

21/22, the lines looks even.

A capital T makes the top line appear to be slightly indented

(upper). Pulling the top line out slightly to the left makes this text align

visually (lower).

TIPS!

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is a typographic

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writer and special-

izing in all aspects

of typographic com-

munication, from the

aesthetic to the tech-

nical. Ilene conducts

Gourmet Typography

Training internation-

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