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Avoid Hyphenated Headings
Hyphenated headings just don’t look good!
Unless you are after a particular visual effect, hyphen-
ated headings should be avoided. Tracking or type size
adjustments can almost always correct the issue.
Don’t Underline Body Copy
Except for artistic purposes, underlining to add
emphasis in body copy should be avoided.
Underlining to add emphasis was a technique that
spawned from early mechanical typesetting devices
called typewriters.
Typewriters by their nature, were limited in their
typeface variations and therefore underlining was
the accepted method to highlight a word or term or
sentence.
These days, the personal computer affords us a myr-
iad of typeface options to add emphasis to body copy:
Italics is the preferred method to add subtle emphasis to
body copy.
Bold type adds additional emphasis.
Using a different typeface increases emphasis
even further.
Larger type is another technique
to add emphasis,
but it should be used discretely due to the inherent lead-
ing issues that may ensue.
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