Dirty Dozen Typefitting Tricks for Designers
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Showker, Fred
Design and Publishing Center
1996

Abstract:

One of the most frequent questions from workshop attendees is 'What do I do about too much text?' Did you ever notice how any publication is like a container? No matter how much space you've got, it always seems to get filled up. Have you ever had a client call with 'just a few' revisions and additions and it turns out to be several pages? What I'd like to know is how come the article can get bigger but the page can't! So many people in my workshops say 'But Fred, I can't use your great graphics tips because I have too much text!' Here are a few suggestions for those times when you're on deadline, and the copy is just a few lines longer than the space you've designed for it...