graphics layouts

[VEX]

A question for the graphics people of pistonheads.

I am just layout out a company brochure and have always liked the cleaness of lines that a full justification gives.

However I see more and more stuff that is just left hand justified. Is this the current fashion? Or just lazy design that is not picked up at proof read time?

V.

[mmm-five]

Ultimately it depends what the client wants - whether the client is the graphics team supervisor or the Marketing Director.

We can push one way or the other if we think it looks really bad, but most of the time it's a personal choice in the end.

Where I am currently working, we're doing a brochure of 20 pages, each with a different geometric shape in the centre of a A3 spread. There's 4 lots of copy to go around the shape in each case (4 reporting areas) and they've all got to look similar. Despite the order to have the word count within 10% of the initial requirement, we've had some departments give us 2 A4 pages of copy when we can only use about a sixth of it.

We are however using full justification.

Edited by mmm-five on Wednesday 9th July 16:23

[pcowen]

Personnel choice I guess, I use both but it depends on the rest of the layout.

[logoman]

If you have plenty of text and your line length is good 10 - 13 words a line, then justification is OK, but some applications justify much better than others - InDesign is the best. (your trying to avoid big word spaces and tracking).

otherwise range it left, that way all the spacing that the type designer put in to the font is preserves - much better for reading.

Edited by logoman on Thursday 10th July 22:28