The new fashion of spacing all running titles with em quads or wider quadrats until they reach the full width of the measure (putting the folio figure at the foot) has a few admirers, but it is too uncouth for long life. Attractive as this oddity may be for an advertising pamphlet, overspaced letters for running titles are a blemish in any serious book.
FRENCH SMALL CAPITALS
French type-founders are now making for their new faces of roman letter small capitals of greater height and width. Others put their small capitals on a wider set, so that they seem hair-spaced. So treated, the small-capital series is more readable, and can be used more effectively.
Capitals and small capitals continue in favor as an approved style of type for side-headings and for subheadings. French printers make good use of their new style of broad small capitals, without the employment of a large capital, for the names of characters in plays. It is a pleasing change.
From Monsieur Fred, by Gyp. 12mo, Paris, 1891.
The em dash at the end of a side-heading or before a signature is an unnecessary addition, for the change
