Margins

Select the ONEchoice that best describes the margins of the sample.

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1 - Overall Margins...
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Margins even, and about right, all the way around...
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Margins tiny all the way around...
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Margins huge all the way around...
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No margins on the left or right at all...
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Margins are uneven (top, bottom, left and right)...
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Nothing in this row really fits...

2 - Top Margin
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Wide Upper Margin..
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Narrow Upper Margin
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Upper Margin about right...

3 - Left Hand Margin
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Uneven Left Hand Margin
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Even Left Hand Margin
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Slowly Indenting
Left Hand Margin

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Slowly Retracting
Left Hand Margin

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No Left Hand Margin at all

4 -Right Margin
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Right Margin Too Big
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Right Margin Even
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Right Margin Crushed into Edge

Zones

The letters and words in a line of writing overlap three zones: Upper, Middle and Lower.

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In normal writing, if you split the region above the base line (the height of a normal sized capital letter) exactly in half, you get the Middle Zone where most small letters sit, and the Upper Zone above it, where loops on tall letters land, or like the upper loop on a capital R sit.

The Lower Zone (below the base line) extends the same distance below the line as normal sized capitals extend above the baseline.


Select the ONEchoice below that best describes the writing within the three zones (upper, middle, and lower).

5 - Zone Domination




Dominating Upper Zone (Upper zone larger and out of proportion to the other two zones)


Dominating Middle Zone (Middle zone larger and out of proportion to the other two zones)


Dominating Lower Zone (Lower zone larger and out of proportion to the other two zones)


All three zones spaced and sized about right


Lots of flourishes in the upper zone, including possible end strokes that flourish clear up in the upper zone...

6 - Middle Zone




Small and poorly written/formed or sloppy Middle Zone


Small, but cleanly and clearly formed Middle Zone


Dominating Middle Zone (Middle zone larger and out of proportion to the other two zones)


Middle Zone sized about right (taking up just half of vertical space above the baseline, or half the size of normal capital letters)

7 - Middle Zone letter Uniformity

 

Small letters pretty much all the same size...
 

Lots of small letters of varying sizes...
 

Small letters getting smaller towards the end of each word...
 

Small letters getting bigger towards the end of each word...
 

Small letters "slurred" and only half formed...
 

Nothing fits...
 

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