My Kingsport Press manual of style for floormen is in storage, but that head would definitely be questioned. You don’t expand interword spacing to full measure on heads or titles if it results in excessive wordspace (especialy over an em width). In that case, you should use nominal wordspace and set the head centered, quad left or quad right. Or increase the pointsize of the title ’til it fit without excessive spacing. (Old school here. We used kerning for interletter spacing and space bandwidth for interword spacing.)
100 floors of fright!
AN. Not A. AN HORRIFIC, for the love of…
Also, anyone here want to explain how kerning actually works, to this client?
And Papyrus, as the icing on the cake. Just loverly.
My Kingsport Press manual of style for floormen is in storage, but that head would definitely be questioned. You don’t expand interword spacing to full measure on heads or titles if it results in excessive wordspace (especialy over an em width). In that case, you should use nominal wordspace and set the head centered, quad left or quad right. Or increase the pointsize of the title ’til it fit without excessive spacing. (Old school here. We used kerning for interletter spacing and space bandwidth for interword spacing.)
“An horrific” isn’t incorrect though, technically, because it’s a word beginning with ‘h’ that isn’t stressed on the first syllable.
I agree that it sounds weird and wrong, though.
Dear cover designer,
You misspelled a word: horrible doesn’t end in “fic”
This building is the epitome of evil among skyscrapers.
The spacing in the title…suspenseful, but the time I got to the end, I had almost peed myself.