Join John McWade for an in-depth discussion in this video The single space practice, part of Graphic Design Tips & Tricks Weekly.
- Ever since desktop publishing…turned us all into typesetters there's been…an ongoing debate about whether to use…one space or two between sentences.…You can use whatever you'd like…but the prevailing practice is one space.…Virtually all modern books and magazines…single space between sentences.…Typesetting, meaning moveable type…you can print with, was invented in China…around the year 1040 and was super complex…as you might imagine with Chinese characters.…
The Roman alphabet is much simpler…and moveable type as we know it…was invented by Johannes Gutenberg…around the year 1450, and it's still with us.…For all that time typeset fonts like Garamond…have been proportional, meaning each character…occupies its natural width just like your handwriting.…Easier to see with this smorgasbord of characters,…lower case, upper case, numerals,…punctuation, everything's a different width.…
The widest character is the upper case M,…the narrowest letter is the lowercase i,…and you can see how great the difference is.…One M is the standard of measure for a typeface.…
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John McWade
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9/13/2019Released
6/2/2015Skill Level Intermediate
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