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In article <C17JH4.C6C@news.cso.uiuc.edu> ritley@uimrl7.mrl.uiuc.edu () writes:

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   I am creating an \input file for myself, to
   define various font sizes -- ninepoint,
   tenpoint, etc.  (Not that this hasn't
   already been done by many people before.)

   I know that typographic artists devote
   quite a lot of time to structuring fonts
   for maximum aesthetic appeal.

   What I would like to know is whether, given
   a font size, there is an "optimal"
   \baselineskip for "single space" and 
   "double space" type.  I can obviously adjust
   the values until I get something which is
   aesthetically pleasing to _me_.  But is there
   some sort of typographical standard?

   Many thanks!

Leading (the amount of white space between lines) depends, to a
signficant extent, on the point size of the type used, the page size,
and the length of the lines. It is also dependent, to a somewhat lesser
extent, on the particular fonts used (in particular, the x-height of
the font in relation to the point size). I admit being a layman in this
area, but I have found some useful references that you may wish to
consult:

@book{kn:ALR92,
        author = "Gerald J. Alred and Walter E. Oliu and Charles T. Brusaw",
        title = "The Professional Writer",
        publisher = "St. Martin's Press",
        address = "New York, New York",
        libref = "ISBN 0-312-00248-3",
        year = "1992" }
@book{kn:UNI82,
        author = "{University of Chicago Press}",
        title = "The Chicago Manual of Style",
        publisher = "University of Chicago Press",
        address = "Chicago, Illinois",
        libref = "ISBN 0-226-10390-0",
        edition = "Thirteenth",
        year = "1982" }
@book{kn:WHI88,
        author = "Jan V. White",
        title = "Graphic Design for the Electronic Age",
        publisher = "Watson-Guptill",
        address = "New York, New York",
        libref = "ISBN 0-8230-2121-1",
        year = "1988" }
@book{kn:RUB88,
        author = "Richard Rubinstein",
        title = "Digital Typography",
        publisher = "Addison-Wesley",
        address = "Reading, Massachusetts",
        libref = "ISBN 0-201-17633-5",
        year = "1988" }
@book{kn:DOW66,
        author = "Geoffrey Dowding",
        title = "Finer Points in the Spacing \& Arrangement of Type",
        publisher = "Wace \& Company",
        address = "Clerkenwell, United Kingdom",
        libref = "ISBN 0-88179-086-9",
        year = "1966" }


Hope this helps.
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