Monotype Typographic Checklist
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May 4, 2011

Monotype long-awaited typographic checklist is a simple way to ensure that typesetting is both professional and appealing.

Monotype have included links to previously published columns about each topic.

http://goo.gl/jB4at


 
Ambrose Li
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Thanks but there may be some caveats May 5, 2011

TargamaT wrote:

Monotype long-awaited typographic checklist is a simple way to ensure that typesetting is both professional and appealing.

Monotype have included links to previously published columns about each topic.

http://goo.gl/jB4at


Thanks for the list. But, of course we still need to use common sense and our own judgement; there are at least a couple in there that are less than absolute rules.

One item in the list that I find particularly debatable is the use of hanging punctuation. In short, if you try to do that to Chinese, Japanese, or Korean (CJK) text, you will end up with some very undesirable results. So if you are using InDesign and working with a text containing both CJK and non-CJK text, you will be forced to disable hanging punctuation unless you are prepared to put in a lot of extra work to do everything by hand.


 


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