The Ink Zone

number 107                                                                                                          February, 2002

 

Margins, White Space and Serif type

 

 

 

Special Fred Liddle

Edition

 

 

  Arial is a fine face, easy to read, and clean enough to amplify the ever so precious white space. For that matter, many other sans-serif faces are easy readers. I sort of like Univers as well and I use these in some of my journals for one fundamental reason, I like each of my INK ZONE’s to accept some change; something I have been doing now for about 20 years. Like a lot of amateur and professional writers and printers, there are few bounds to trying to write, organize, layout, and add graphics to for a reader to see and read something of interest.

am some what confused when I read that just two paragraphs below a comment in Volume 66, No. 1 of the American Amateur Journalist, on the INK ZONE # 140, is a clear statement that Generous margins and white space is pleasing and easy to the eye. Quite right.

 

The puzzle for me is the comment that extra space between paragraphs is not for journals and uneven margins are a crime beyond a sentence.  Witch is it?

 

                                                                                                                                                                           

 

 

 

White Space

 

 

 

Or  even margins?

 

One of the things I have liked about the AAPA, aside from the mentoring from the experienced folks in the association, is the freedom to write and print just about anything one wants in any format.

 

Mimeographed pages, fine letter press books, numbered journals with all the colophons, titles, and numbers, book marks, dogs as authors.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Please, Fred, forgive me for braking the rules at times. While I need the discipline of advice and counsel from the experienced, I enjoy the modest freedoms to express my ignorance, test some later to be seen stupid ideas, and just have fun doing it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

The Ink Zone is written by a proven armature and kindly given to the American Amateur Press Association along with an annual check for 15 dollars to facilitate it’s circulation to readers, printers, and writers for their sole enjoyment.  A cornerstone among the pebbles of imperfections are typographical errors randomly scatted between the white space, clear to the reader regardless of the type style, and always outside the margins of the classic rules.

 

 

 

G.E. McKelvey

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