Lead desert

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Lead desert is the colloquial critical term used by typesetters for a document overloaded with text and therefore difficult to read .

use

The term lead desert is characterized by small line spacing and a lack of structuring through distinctions, highlighting, paragraphs, headings and images within a document. Texts with a font that is too small, on the other hand, are called eye powder . Originally, the term referred to those found in the pressure range hot type . It continues to be used today in conjunction with new media .

See also

literature

  • Pascal Schöning: lead desert. Things to know about typography . Niggli, Sulgen u. Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-7212-0704-0 .

Web links

Wiktionary: lead desert  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ralf Turtschi: Practical Typography: Designing with the Personal Computer (=  Desktop Publishing ). 4th edition. Niggli, 2000, ISBN 3-7212-0292-9 , pp. 112 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ a b c d e Peter J. Biel: The small lexicon of printer language: Old and new technical terms relating to book printing, typesetting & Co. John Wiley & Sons, 2014, ISBN 978-3-527-68571-4 ( google.de ).
  3. ↑ Jens Jacobsen: Website conception: plan, implement and operate successful websites (=  DPI graphics ). Pearson Deutschland GmbH, 2011, ISBN 978-3-8273-3079-6 , pp. 195 ( limited preview in Google Book search).