I’m not sure if I’m getting too much into my obsession with type here and over thinking the line breaks. The first image is how the text naturally flows, the second is with a forced line break which I’m starting to feel I’ve been using too much lately.

I’m sort of applying a reverse widow idea in that ‘fatalities’ is too far out on its own and so it looks better in my mind to bring it into the next line. But in doing so that leaves the single line ‘Iraq War’ above exposed and of course it would be ridiculous to split that plus I don’t have the room.

It’s all about the macro-typography in this instance, I’m focusing more on the general shape and make up of the text than whatever rules there are for this sort of thing. I’ve also been replacing every - with an – as well (that’s an en dash by the way).

Don’t know if that’s just going too far or represent signs of good attention to typography, it’s certainly a bit tiresome in a product guide I’m working on at Intermedia currently.

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