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L;ading is the baseline to bas-line measurement.

Font spacingand pitch

You probablyfirst heard the word pitch in comection with typewriters. Typewritersnormallyusemonospacedspacing:theygiveeachcharacterthe same amountof spaceon the line.

Abouthalfthefontsavailableforlaserprintersusemonospacedspacingtoo. Pitch is always expressedas so many charactemper inch. Ten-pitch,for example,meansa font with ten charactersin each inch of the line.

Typesetter for centurieshaveused two specialsizesof type for mosttext. Efitecharactersare IOpointshighand print12charactersperinch.Andpica chararactersare 12 points high and pitched at 10 charactersto the inch. You’ll,often run across thesemonospacedfont sizes in the laser printing world.

Ideallyeachcharacterin a wordshouldnestleagainstitsncighboursso they appearevenlyspaced.But adjacentroundcharactersare aptto look 100far apart, whileflat-sidedcharactersmay appeartoo close.

Proportionalspacing takes into accountthe differencesin widths among letters(compareii withWW).Proportionallyspacedprintingiseasierto read than typewriter-styleprintingin which all characters,includingpunctua- tion, have the same width.

Realtypesettersequipcertaincharactemwith kerns,letterpartsthatextend out to overlap adjoiningletters. In this word Type they is kerned closely againstthe T. Kerningseparatesgreattype from good type.

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