SO…HOW DO YOU DO A TEXT WRAP that’s so bad it makes your teeth hurt? Thanks to my colleague Doug Fisher, here’s a look at one example. This comes from The State, in Columbia, SC.
A widow…really bad word spacing…well, not something I’d wanna put in my portfolio.
I begin to despair that page assembly people (no designer did this!) will ever get the idea that really bad word spacing makes the newspaper look sloppy.
Does anyone out there want to try to defend this?
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looks like a prime example of “a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing”
You got that right!
Surprised this came from The State. I quite like their bold approach to A1.
Why would you set this body copy justified? Just use flush left … all problems solved. I read The State daily when I lived in Columbia (in the late ’90s) and I don’t remember seeing anything as egregious as this. This is a perfect example of “we did it because we can.” It’s worse than awful.