Hanging Bullets
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I am working on a project that has a bulleted list and decided to hang it. I believe that this is the correct thing to do. Now I'm being told that it's incorrect and more of style issue. Any suggestions on how to approach this? Or does anyone have good examples of work they done with hanging bullets?
- akrok0
"it's incorrect and more of style issue" - marketing dept. lol.
- _salisae_0
I did some work for salesforce recently and they requested the same thing – unhung quotes. i mentioned that it was incorrect and was told to do it anyway. then, walking around town, i spotted ads that made the same 'style' choice. it must be a thing. likely, as you say, a marketing thing.
- Amicus0
It is definitely better to hang them.
It's a justification/alignment issue and the list still looks a list.
As long as there is a visual break between the list and the flow of text you'll be good to go.
- monospaced0
I gave up trying to hang bullets years ago. Marketing people will fight till the end on this. Now, I just do anything in my power to eliminate bullets altogether through typographic treatments (space after, etc).
- gramme0
Wow. My clients typically don't give a crap if bullets are hung or not. They kind of assume I know what I'm doing.
The thing I catch more grief about, but usually still end up winning them over on, is on hanging punctuation. People are not used to seeing it anymore.