Arts and crafts essays . for : modern printers generallyoverdo the whites in the spacing,a defect probably forced on them by the characterless quality of the letters. 127 ???flu ?BBi Printing. For where these are boldly and care-fully designed, and each letter isthoroughly individual in form, thewords may be set much closer to-gether, without loss of clearness. Nodefinite rules, however, except theavoidance of rivers and excess ofwhite, can be given for the spacing,which requires the constant exercise ofjudgment and taste on the part of theprinter. The position of the page on thepaper should b
Arts and crafts essays . for : modern printers generallyoverdo the whites in the spacing,a defect probably forced on them by the characterless quality of the letters. 127 ???flu ?BBi Printing. For where these are boldly and care-fully designed, and each letter isthoroughly individual in form, thewords may be set much closer to-gether, without loss of clearness. Nodefinite rules, however, except theavoidance of rivers and excess ofwhite, can be given for the spacing,which requires the constant exercise ofjudgment and taste on the part of theprinter. The position of the page on thepaper should be considered if the bookis to have a satisfactory look. Hereonce more the almost invariable modernpractice is in opposition to a naturalsense of proportion. From the timewhen books first took their presentshape till the end of the sixteenthcentury, or indeed later, the page solay on the paper that there was more space allowed to the bottom and fore128 margin than to the top and back of Printing,the paper, thus :. the unit of the book being looked onas the two pages forming an modern printer, in the teeth of theevidence given by his own eyes, con-siders the single page as the unit, andprints the page in the middle of hispaper—only nominally so, however, inmany cases, since when he uses aheadline he counts that in, the resultas measured by the eye being that thelower margin is less than the top one,and that the whole opening has anupside-down look vertically, and thatlaterally the page looks as if it weredriven off >g pap< 129
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