From the course: Graphic Design Foundations: Typography

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Variations on alignment

Variations on alignment

From the course: Graphic Design Foundations: Typography

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Variations on alignment

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Selecting the proper alignment for your project will help your viewer navigate and comprehend your message, whether it's on screen or in print. Every project is different. There are five kinds of typographic alignment. Flush left, flush right, justified, centered, and asymmetrical, which is also called random or mixed alignment. Flush left is a very common style of alignment. When lines of type are aligned on the left, we call it flush left. The number of characters and words in each line varies. That's why the lines on the right are uneven or ragged, so we call it rag right. Together, it's flush left, rag right. We abbreviate this style of alignment like this. Flush left, rag right is a common form of typesetting. The reason is that we read from left to right. So flush left type allows us to find our place from one line to the next more easily. Also it has consistent word spacing, which makes reading easier. On mobile devices, almost all text type is set flush left because lines are…

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