Five Simple Steps to Better Typography: Hanging Punctuation
http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/comments/five_simple_steps_to_better_typography_part_2/

Boulton, Mark
Mark Boulton
2007

Abstract:

Hanging punctuation is an area of typographic design which has suffered at the hands of certain software products. It's a term which refers to glyph positioning to create the illusion of a uniform edge of text. It's most commonly used for pull-quotes, but I feel the most neglected is that of bulleted lists.