Re:About Dave on Design
by strogonoff on Friday July 14, 2023 @10:42AM
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Typography tips:
Don’t separate a paragraph by both indenting the first line and also adding top margin.
Don’t use both increased font size and bullets to emphasize a paragraph.
(The above are special cases of the same general rule informally known as “pick one”. Another special case of the same rule is why we never use multiple factors, such as font style and font weight and color and underline, simultaneously to emphasize a span of the text.)
Unless you are careful about hyphenation, don’t use full justification unless your lines are sufficiently long to avoid awkwardly large word spacing.
(No one is going to notice your fine-tuned sentence spacing and other flourishes of typography when word spacing is so annoyingly inconsistent from line to line.)
Don’t separate a paragraph by both indenting the first line and also adding top margin.
Don’t use both increased font size and bullets to emphasize a paragraph.
(The above are special cases of the same general rule informally known as “pick one”. Another special case of the same rule is why we never use multiple factors, such as font style and font weight and color and underline, simultaneously to emphasize a span of the text.)
Unless you are careful about hyphenation, don’t use full justification unless your lines are sufficiently long to avoid awkwardly large word spacing.
(No one is going to notice your fine-tuned sentence spacing and other flourishes of typography when word spacing is so annoyingly inconsistent from line to line.)