Top 10 Terrible Type Transgressions
This article appeared in Issue 72 of InDesign Magazine.To err is human, but to commit these typographic sins is anything but divine.
As a long-time Adobe InDesign trainer and print designer I’ve seen more than my share of hideous typesetting. I’ll admit that most of these mistakes I’ve made myself in my early days, but over time and with minimal study, plus a little attention to detail, I’ve learned how to coax elegant results from type.
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Thanks for this. I feel pretty good that as a self-taught InDesign user, I have only committed the crime of stretching a font–but ONLY when designing a book cover and getting the title to the exact size I need it. I had used Lithos Pro for chapter titles and headers, so I wanted it for the title, but resizing didn’t quite do what I needed, so I stretched a bit horizontally and vertically to get it balanced. By doing it equally, it didn’t look distorted. I would never do that in the interior.