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Hair-spacing of capital
letters
This treatment gives equality to all the words, and the initial letters of each word line vertically, regardless of their irregular endings. All other short lines of a title-page can be centred by putting equal blanks on each side of every
The needed irregularity is produced by different sizes of type that make the lines of unequal length, but there should be some symmetry in the
line.
a pencil line drawn diagoto the end of the longest line should touch or nearly touch the ends of the intermediate lines. hair-spacing of one or
apparent irregularity
nally
;
from the end of a short
A
more intermediate When the main
lines
may
be needed.
has to be widely spaced, as in a title-page of the Puritan or seventeenth-century style, other lines of display should be widespaced, and broad blanks put between the lines above and below the main line. The space between line
single types in any line of display should be much narrower than that of its proximate blanks. The wide spacing of single types when there are narrow blanks above and below is unpleasing, for it makes
the subject-matter incoherent. Small capitals that have little interior white space may need hair-spacing to make them more distinct.
An
old rule required every line in the title to be spaced when the main line had been spaced. This treatment is not always practicable, but it could be
observed much oftener than has been done, and with advantage to many title-pages.