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Graphic Design Theory #8 – Justification vs Alignment

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Should you always justify your text instead of using left or right alignment? Should you ever use hyphenation for the copy in your designs? Join me to find out the truth!

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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:30 Justification vs Alignment
3:50 Hyphenation
6:06 Optical Margin Alignement
7:07 Justification Settings
9:45 Glyphs Scaling Settings
10:27 Words Spacing
11:40 Composer Settings
13:17 Left Align Improvement
14:20 Summary