Monday, December 28, 2009

Q & A (February 2009) –

My company needs to advertise in a publication whose advertising rates are straining our budget. Can you provide some ideas for fitting a lot of text into a small space?

Over the years, we at Express Printing & Graphics have developed some tricks for organizing text to improve readability. Try these techniques:

• Add contrast to large blocks of text by using headlines, subheads, headers, footers, pull

quotes, sidebars and bulleted lists.

• Make headlines larger and use a different font than the body copy.

• Add a one-point rule above and below a subhead and make it span two columns of text.

• Use white space to balance black space by basing the design on a grid.

• Create a drop-cap from three to six times larger than the body copy.


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