on 2011-09-15 13:08 Paul Stenquist wrote
On Sep 15, 2011, at 2:09 PM, steve harley wrote:
compensating for this by hand is hopeless with large quantities of text, but
there are tools, such as the Optical Character Spacing option in InDesign,
which can force shabby fonts to lay out with fairly good color, assuming other
aspects of the font are adequate
I think you meant that OCS can force fonts to lay out with fairly good letter
spacing -- or kerning.
when OCS force possibly better kerning, it results in possibly better "color",
color being the main reason to pay attention to kerning in body text
"letter spacing" intuitively seems the same as kerning, but to typographers it
generally means the overall tracking (the book title Stop Stealing Sheep comes
from a Goudy quote "Anyone who would letterspace lower case would steal sheep")
And of course you can hand kern in InDesign or Quark. It was relatively simple
with Quark.
it's simple in both -- just learn the keyboard shortcuts; but one generally
only hand-kerns display type, or sometimes body type in a high-dollar job like
a magazine ad
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