title-page which separated words in many lines of unequal length, making some absurdly large and others (catch-lines) unduly small, much to the waste of the white space really needed for a proper relief to the few lines of display. The new fashion is as artificial as the old, much more troublesome, and sometimes more unsightly. To make perfect all the lines of a squared paragraph of capital letters in a narrow measure, the words in some lines may have to be spaced between the letters; in other
OBSERVATIONS CONCERNING
SPELLING, ABBREVIATIONS,
COMPOUND WORDS, ITALIC,
FIGURES, NUMERALS, SMALL-
CAPITAL AND CAPITAL LET-
TERS, DIVISION OF WORDS,
EXTRACTS, LETTERS, NOTES,
INDENTION, EVEN SPACING.
In thid illustration of squaring, the letters are not hair-spaced, but the spaces between the words are objectionably uneven. Judicious hair-spacing is needed to lessen the gaps in the second, third, and eighth lines. lines the words may have to be separated by spaces which are too thick or too thin. When this uneven spacing has been made, the letters in some lines seem to belong to different fonts. The spacing of letters changes the color of the lines; some words will seem too light and others too dark, and the general effect will be as disagreeable to a critical eye as that which would be produced by double or triple leading between some lines and the entire omission of leads between other lines.
