Back in third grade, Mrs. Ditzel taught us fractions. So nearly 50 years later, I ask myself why Adobe programs have such a hard time ...

InDesign makes simple drop caps easy but typographically refined ones are more challenging. No matter what kind of a drop cap you create, the following ...

Whenever you Place a text document in InDesign or Illustrator, you’re probably importing typographical problems with it. This is a guide to weeding out some ...

Integrated text processing for InDesign

But if you specify that distance in fractions of an em, their relative spacing will remain constant at any size. This is why kerning and ...

The best way to measure the relative positions of text blocks on the page is by reckoning from their baselines, those invisible lines upon which ...

...A widow is a short last line of a paragraph and an orphan is a short fragment of a paragraph that appears at the top ...

A basic assumption that makes type work—and the key to which issues of spacing and proportion hinge—is that it’s black on a white background.