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 or more meet in one word, and are preceded by upright regular letters, the irregular letters show too much of white between their stems or thick strokes. The unpleasant contrast between regular and irregular characters can be diminished by putting a thin space between all the upright letters. When capitals with upright stems are thin-spaced and meet letters of irregular form not spaced, all will seem to be apart at uniform distance.



When there is much white space on the page or about one or more lines of capital letters printed thereon, single capital letters may be wide-spaced with propriety, providing that the spacing be made apparently uniform in all lines, and will not produce unsightly divisions of some syllables. If single letters are spaced, the ordinary spacing between words should be proportionately increased. In no case, however, should the space between single letters be greater than that between adjacent lines. It is a sad disfigurement to a title-page to have two picas between the letters of a bold display line and but one pica of blank between the proximate lines.

Quote-marks should have hair-spaces put between them and the quoted matter in every place where