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Text wrap spacing

Text wrap spacing

- [Nigel] Welcome to Type Tips. I'm Nigel French. In this week's episode, a solution to the problem that sometimes occurs with text wraps of inconsistent spacing above and below the text wrap object. On the left, the starting state where the space beneath the text wrap object is visually bigger than it is on the right. And that is despite the fact that the text wrap offset amount above and below is set to be the same. Also despite the fact that the text is locked to a baseline grid of 12 points and that the text wrap object is a multiple in height of that grid size. So what is the problem here? Well, I'll just turn turn on this spacing layer and if we measure these spaces, here measuring from the baseline to the top of the text wrap object, that is, as expected, 12 points, the size of our grid increment. But beneath, measuring from the bottom of the text wrap object to the top of the caps of the type, we see that…

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