Right Down the Middle
There is nothing inherently wrong with centered text. As with ragged right or fully-justified text alignment, what works for one design might be totally inappropriate for another layout. There are simply fewer situations where centered text is appropriate. Today’s lesson suggests when and when not to center your text.
Use Centered Text Sparingly
When in doubt, don’t center it.
Pages in this Lesson
1: Centered Text
2: Assignment
Tips, Trivia, Tidbits
Here Comes the Bride…
Formal wedding invitations are one instance where centered text is traditional and appropriate. Engraved wedding invites are traditional as well. But if you want to buck tradition (with or without the centered text), there’s a growing trend toward do-it-yourself invitations. Pick up tips and find materials for creating wedding invitations and related bridal and wedding materials with computer software and printing from the About Desktop Publishing site with these Wedding and Anniversary Projects
Previous 4 Lessons in this Class
Lesson 1: Space After Punctuation
Lesson 2: Space After Paragraphs
Lesson 3: Number of Fonts
Lesson 4: Text Alignment
