From the course: The 33 Laws of Typography

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20 Hang bullets and numbers in lists

20 Hang bullets and numbers in lists

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20 Hang bullets and numbers in lists

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- Law 20: Hang bullets and numbers in lists. Using bulleted or numbered lists is a great way to break up paragraphs of text and present information in an organized, chunked, way. That's going to help readers digest it and better understand the information. Numbered lists should be used when you're presenting a list of steps, or items in some kind of a sequence where the order of the items is important. Bulleted lists should be used when you're presenting a list of information and order's not important at all. Whether you're using bulleted lists or numbered lists, you should hang the bullets or numbers to preserve and create a strong aligned edge for the data in your lists. What does it mean to hang bullets and numbers? Well, let's look at some examples to help explain the concept. In this first example, we have a bulleted list. We've got some information here. But the bullets have not been hung. In the second example, we have the exact same list, but the difference here is that the…

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