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Re: Blathering about typography - laarree - 12-09-2008
Greg the dogsitter wrote:
Ah! I went for 1.3, um...whatever those're measured in. I just mucked around with it until things looked good. 1.5 is more traditional, but it looked too spread out.
If you are thinking of leading as 1.3 or 1.5, you are a Word nerd,
not a typography maven. :tongue:
Those numbers are the proportion of the leading (space between
successive baselines of two lines of type) to the point size of the type
itself, so if you have a paragraph set in 12 point type in an app like
MS Word, a line spacing of 1.5 means you have 18 point leading.
Re: Blathering about typography - Silencio - 12-09-2008
My x-height is greater than your x-height.
I dream in Picas.
Re: Blathering about typography - laarree - 12-09-2008
Silencio wrote:
My x-height is greater than your x-height.
I dream in Picas.
My ascender is bigger than your descender. So there.
Re: Blathering about typography - incognegro - 12-10-2008
are you set solid now?
Re: Blathering about typography - laarree - 12-10-2008
incognegro wrote:
are you set solid now?
Quiet, I'm stylin'!