At 3/28/2008 01:14 PM, Àëåêñåé Íîâèêîâ wrote:
Is underline really needed? What for?
Underline is a method for highlighting
(emphasizing) Roman text. As far as I know it
was invented with the typewriter, being a way to
highlight a bit of text using a machine that was
limited to a single font family, style, and
size. Underlined text in a manuscript is
typically typeset in italics. A lot of designers
today agree that it's quite ugly and defaces the
descenders of the type it highlights, although
some type designs use it as a way of getting
attention (because it's so ugly) or evoking the
historical era of the typewriter. Most
aesthetically compassionate people limit its use
to hyperlinks where it is the defacto standard;
on web pages, any other underlining is
discouraged because it makes people expect the
underlined text to be hyperlinked.
In case google is blocked from your region, here are a couple of references:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underline
http://www.flyinglizard.co.nz/typography.php
Regards,
Paul
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Paul Novitski
Juniper Webcraft Ltd.
http://juniperwebcraft.com
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