This chapter is about the basics of typography. Topics such as general composition rules, structuring of paragraphs, highlighting, etc. will be dealt with here.

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Title composition


A title is used to lay downthe structure of a text. There are different types of titles: Headline (main title), subtitle, intertitle (caption), ... 

Paragraph Structure


A text body must be structured, otherwise it is hard to read. There are 3 popular ways of structuring text: Indentions, spacings and decorative elements. 

Highlighting


It may be useful to highlight words or passages in a text body. If there are several differently highlighted elements according to their hierarchy in the docume... 

Alignment


There are three ways of typographic alignment within a column: Justified, ragged and centered. These three ways describe how the lines are aligned and ...