An exercise in typesetting:
Legibility is the the quality of being clear enough to read - line lengths should generally contain 45 to 65 characters. Readability is the ease at which a reader can understand a written text. Generally stick to no more than two type sizes on a printed page, but there are exceptions. Alignments can either be flush left, flush right (although these often show an uneven rag), centred or justified. Justified type however is susceptible to rivers, the lines of spaces that appear to run down bodies of copy. Also often encountered in justified text are orphans and widows - short lines at the beginning and end of
a paragraph respectively.
In order to demonstrate these different typesetting effects we were asked to find a badly designed takeaway menu and reset the type. I chose a section of 'Lucky's Pizza Delivery' menu and shortened the line length, changed the type face and decreased the smallest font size to increase the legibility and readability of the menu.
