Brand & Style Guide Quick Tip: Text Alignment

Submitted by Leslie Marinelli

It's time for another quick tip from the FCPL Brand & Style Guide! 

Today's tip is all about improving the effectiveness, readability, and design of your communications with text alignment.  

• Left-aligned text is typically preferable to center-aligned text for readability. 
  
  
• Center-aligned text is acceptable in short phrases or for titles and headings, but should be avoided when using long sentences or paragraphs. 
  
  
• Break larger paragraphs into smaller chunks for maximum readability. 
  
  
• Be mindful of where text wraps so lines of text are balanced. (TIP: insert a “soft return” using Shift+Enter to manually control word wrapping within the same paragraph.)  

The FCPL Brand & Style Guide was updated today to add the above graphic and clarify a few points about text formatting and alignment.