Justification settings
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I'm interested in hearing what other people in the book publishing field use as their justification settings. I say book publishing because I'm interested in justified text on a printed page that needs to look perfect (for all those perfectionists out there…and you know who you are). I know different fonts on different measures require different settings but I'm wondering what the minimim amount you allow your type to be distorted. I work for publishers dealing with acedemic books and health/wellness and “green” books.
I generally allow letter spacing and glyph scaling to vary by .1%. I have heard others say that using these numbers will allow for better word spacing without any perceptible distortion of the type or it's spacing. But I recently watched a video where the presenter was advocating for 5% variance in letter spacing. To me this seemed to be too much. It did allow for less hyphenation but letter spacing in some of the words was certainly discernible. For the record I generally have my desired word spacing set to anywhere from 75-90% with a variance of 10%, preferring a tighter setting and as opposed to open. And I would prefer to hypenate a line rather than distort the letter spacing in a word to the point where it calls attention to itself.
John
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G'day guys,
I'm not in book publishing, just paddling my way through work as a junior graphic designer. I thought i'd share my settings. I got them awhile back from a Michael Murphy podcast & well, they have always been fine. I have them as my default settings.
Word Spacing 85, 95, 105
Letter Spacing -3, -1, 2
Glyph Spacing 98, 100, 101
As far a type distortion goes, do you mean horizontal and vertical scaling? If yes, I was taught in college that it is not acceptable to distort any type, ever. If the Type Designer wanted it any differently it would have been created that way.
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kjgEnergy: “As far a type distortion goes, do you mean horizontal and vertical scaling? If yes, I was taught in college that it is not acceptable to distort any type, ever.”
Actually, looking at your settings above, you are distorting your type. The third line in the justificaiton box is for Glyph Scaling, not Glyph Spacing. So using 98, 100, 101 will certainly distort your type.
I don't like using letter spacing either and that's why I only use -.1%, 0, -1%. Sometimes this tiny little bit is enough to allow InDesign better hypenation and avoid loose or tight lines.
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