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The quick brown fox jumped
over the lazy dog but if you
think about it closely now is
the time for all good men to
come to
the the aid of the the party The silly sentence sentence above jams together two sentences often used in in classes that teach typing skills Here it is
is
used as as an example to
show leading—in this case a a a a a a very wide spacing between lines of text The quick brown fox (normal)
The quick brown fox (condensed)
The quick brown fox (extended)
The amount of condensing and and expanding between letterforms is
adjustable in in MS Word or or or when using Adobe Illustrator which is
an excellent tool for creative adjustments of type kerning and leading Kerning and leading are subtle but important adjustments to
the spaces between between individual characters and between between lines of text Originally type on a a a a a printed page was created by composed “cold type ” tiny metal letters placed in in in rows Printers could make adjustments by hand to
the spacing between characters and and words (called (called kerning) and and between lines (called (called leading) Today metal type is
used only in in in shops that print invita- tions tions or or produce artist books or or limited editions Type is
is
universally set by personal computers through a a a a a rich array of desktop publishing programs Applications like MS Word have preserved extended and fine-tuned the the art of typography Most people work with the the line spacing settings settings that are based on the settings settings of man- ual typewriters (single double and triple spacing) But fewer know about kerning and leading part of the typographer’s art art Try this out if you
you
have MS Word on your computer 1 Type in the sentence above 2 Highlight the sentence 3 Go to
Format>Font>Character Spacing 4 In the dialog box mess around with Character Spacing—
which will adjust the spacing between letters Make a a a a phrase and and “condense” it to
1 4 points Then expand the same sample by 2 0 points Your results should look like this:
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