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Font Usage
One
of the most understated and least recognized areas of design pertains
to fonts. Using a certain font can make or break your project. This section
will help you understand them. Want
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Capitals:
Are You YELLING at Me?
 Nobody
likes to be yelled at — in person, on the phone or in print. Unfortunately,
that doesn't seem to stop some people from doing it on their web pages,
in their e-mails and in their brochures. I am referring to the overuse
of ALL CAPS which basically amounts to someone screaming at you in print.
Back when we used...read more
The
Difference in Dashes
What
most of us know about the use of dashes dates back, for the most part,
to our use of typewriters. Our writing classes in high school probably
didn't touch on the subject at all which accounts for some of the confusion.
Here's the skinny on where you should use different dashes and hyphens.
...read more
Italics
Instead of Underlining
Going
back to the days of typewriters, underlining was somewhat common. Aside
from the occasional handwritten note and Web pages, this is probably the
only place that you've ever seen underlining used. There's a reason for
that. The reason is that it doesn't belong in professional publishing.
Underlining, on the typewriter...read
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One
Space or Two Between Sentences?
If
you look closely at any professionally-printed magazine or book, you'll
notice that there's only one space after a sentence's period before the
start of the next sentence. Why not two? After all, your tenth-grade typing
teacher drilled it into your head that two spaces were proper. Well, your
teacher was right — for the typewriter. In the days of monospaced
typing...read more
Fun
with Quotation Marks
When
we all were relegated to using typewriters, which is where many of us
learned to type in the old days (nothing makes you feel older any quicker
than talking about the days before computers), we had one choice for making
quotation marks. We chose " because that's all there was on the keyboard.
Today, with computers in full force and typewriters on the decline, that's
not the case anymore. The inch mark (") is not the same as quotation
marks (“”) and they shouldn't be used interchangeably in a document.
Popular word-processing software...read
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