In this InDesign video, Charles Nix from Monotype demonstrates how he achieves balanced and visually pleasing fully-justified type. He explains the paragraph settings he changes to end up with fewer hyphens, better spacing, and fewer of those dreaded “rivers of white” throughout a block of text.
This comes from Charles’ “Mind the Gaps: Paying Attention to Spacing” session at the CreativePro InDesign+Type Summit.
This article was last modified on August 29, 2025
This article was first published on August 12, 2022
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