When words are hyphenated, they should lead the reader from the head of the word, to the waiting body at the beginning of the next line. Justification wouldn’t work without it, not without a tremendous copyfitting effort anyway. Note especially the word spacing on the fifth lines of each. The text breaks at exactly the same points in both samples, which is unusual, but offers a nice apples-to-apples comparison of the subtle differences. Below is a comparison of the default justification settings, left, to the new settings, right. The sample above is justified with the above settings applied. Provided no other documents are open upon closing this dialog, the values you’ve just set are your new justification defaults. ( Update In response to one of the comments, I’ll add: If you’re creating a PDF to be read primarily on screen, fix glyph scaling to 100%.) Note that I don’t mess with the Single Word Justification since this is something that’s rarely used, but when it is, you’ll want it to perform as expected. Once you’ve got a representative sample of your copy set, dial these settings (Glyph Scaling tolerances) back some to see what’s working. But by all means, use your eyes and try it out with the real thing. Many designers of text faces take this constraint into consideration and make their designs capable of withstanding modest scaling. The same goes for Letter Spacing and Glyph Scaling, though I’d keep it to a 1 or 2 percent variation.Īnd yes, in case you’re wondering I did in fact just say it’s okay to squoosh type, a little. Instead, vary Word Spacing by 2 or 3 percent on either side. Spaces between words will be both much too wide and far too tight as a result. Twenty percentage points of variation tighter and looser than the default word spacing is simply too elastic a standard. From the Paragraph panel, select the down arrow in the top right corner, and choose Justification.Ĭommon Term: When typographers refer to ‘H&J,’ they’re talking about hyphenation and justification settings.Īpplying the above defaults ensures terrible justification. First, before any documents are open in InDesign, let’s fix the default. Alright, you’ve read the intro on when to justify and what considerations to make when doing it, now let’s get to the how of it.

Turn off auto hyphenation in word press