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- imnotadesigner
What do you find is the best leading for 9pt copy?
- Knuckleberry0
Depends on the font:
Is it condensed?
bold?
......?
Picture?
- bulletfactory0
there are many variables......depends on your page format, margins, what type of feel you want etc.
- imnotadesigner0
Im just second guessing myself, I guess. Ill post a pic.
- imnotadesigner0
- i prefer the left7point34
- thats where Im at right now but I wasn't sure, I thought of maybe tightening up the leadingimnotadesigner
- The one on the right looks better to my eye.gramme
- left.Midge
- rightkelpie
- leftjanne76
- rightjanne76
- leftjanne76
- rightjaylarson
- totally depends on the editorial content. if anything else goes in that is spacious or tight. adapt leading and baselineerikjonsson
- bulletfactory0
I lean to your left example. i tend to increase leading to make the page seem less dense; however, this can increase cost by adding pages... unless it's a web project.
- magnificent_ruin0
I vote for right, but I don't know the context, so ingore that
- Glitterati_Duane0
I tend to use more leading when there's less text and tighter leading for longer text.
- D_Dot0
For web:
http://www.webtypography.net/Rhy…For print, I seem to remember an equation to help figure out a starting point in the "Elements of Typographic Style"
http://www.amazon.com/Elements-T…
- gramme0
Whatever you do, don't stretch it until legibility is sacrificed. People should have to look for the beginning of the next line.
This is only a general average, mind you, but for a font of average x-height at nine pt., I'd use 12 points of leading. Less than that, and it tends to look too tight; more than that, and it tends to look wasteful at best, and illegible at worst.
- orangecrunch0
touch me in my privates
- imnotadesigner0
Im gonna stick with 9/14.5 because the pages aren't copy heavy
- I wouldn't, it looks too loose.gramme
- I agree with grammescrap_paper
- janne760
well then!
- scarabin_net0
split the difference and go home
- Amicus0
+1 scarabin
- Amicus0
don't go too loose or the page will become fragmented and harder to read. Too narrow and you lose your place while reading more easily. Find a comfortable medium and remember looser leading means less white space around the text and more in it... not always good.
- scrap_paper0
the 14.5 is too loose to my eye. I've worked on a lot of projects where loose leading was directed and I've never really agreed except for a couple of situations.
The bigger the leading the "lighter" the look. The smaller the leading the darker.
In this case I really think the 14.5 is too much but then again it depends on the rest of the page. I'd drop it by a pt myself.