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After reading A type primer from page 76 to 113, I have a clear picture of what the kerning and letterspacing is. Kerning refers to remove space from letters while letterspacing means to add space between letters. There are four kinds of text arrangement (flush left ragged right, centered, flush right ragged left, and justified) which Jimmy just reviewed this afternoon in the class. A successful layout should create a middle gray value, in order to achieve that, considering of leading and line length and choosing the typeface is the key. As author suggested that own a type specimen books is quite useful, even though we have typeface samples in the monitor.
A printed one can always show more clearly than in the monitor, especially in small size. As to ways of indicating paragraphs, I prefer add a line space between paragraph, cause that will less the chance of having widows or orphans in the text. There is always necessity to highlight text for emphasis requirement. And in this text book again author demonstrate clear samples. Further, he and Jimmy also point out the misusing on primes to apostrophes that I really don’t know until I take this class. Finally, the arrangement of headlines within text, which is also called hierarchy, shows the sequence and subordination between headlines. After reading this section, I have a clear idea of how to design the text in the book or maybe in the posters that have information text needs to be arranged in hierarchy way.