From the course: InDesign: Typography Part 2
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Hanging punctuation - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign: Typography Part 2
Hanging punctuation
- [Voiceover] One of the simplest enhancement you can make to your type is to use optical margin alignment. Punctuation at the edge of a text frame can make the column appear misaligned. When a line begins with punctuation, like an opening quote mark or ends with a comma, period, or especially a hyphen, you have a visual hole. With InDesign's story panel. You can ensure that your punctuation hangs outside of the text frame so that column edge remains flush. This makes optical margin alignment especially beneficial when working with justified text. The story panel is easy to use. You select the story with the selection tool or the type tool, choose story from the type menu, check the box and you're done. The only user-defined option is the font size. And this should correspond to the size of your type. But you might want to experiment with this. There are a few types of paragraph that don't benefit from optical margin alignment. Notably, bullet or number lists. For such paragraphs, you…
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